Essays on Coleridge

If there ever was a poet that served as a representative of the Romantic Period of literature, there’s no doubt that William Wordsworth’s poetry comes to mind. His understanding of Nature continues to remain unparalleled and which is something that Coleridge himself acknowledges in his poem, To William Wordsworth, where he expresses his admiration for the latter by calling him “friend of the wise” and “teacher of the good” (Coleridge). Without a doubt, Coleridge and Wordsworth spent time writing poetry that is now considered to be the beginning of the Romantic Age, where poets took inspiration from ...

[Class Title]

Introduction The philosophy of transcendentalism is based on the belief that there exists a higher form of knowledge or reality that could not be fathomed by human reason, which humans can achieve. As defined by scholars, transcendentalism is the idea that people “have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that ‘transcends’ or goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel”. Transcendentalism is not a new concept. Historically, the idea of transcendentalism can be traced to the works of the Greek philosopher, Plato and the doctrines of major religions such as the ancient ...

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” written by William Taylor Coleridge is one of the most distinctive and inimitable poems, quite unusual because of its language, topical amphibology, depicted unseen creatures that live in the world, and powerful nature beautiful and scaring at the same time. Having little in common with the other works of that time, Coleridge stresses that the natural world has its breathtaking and absorbing power over the human beings. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" tells the story of supernatural events that occurred with a sailor during prolonged swimming. He talks about it a little bit ...

Classic English Literature

The ‘Lyrical Ballads’ is a combined work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in the year 1789, which can be referred to as an autobiography, a philosophical work, and also a literary criticism. The fundamental principles presented in this work is the creative imagination of both the authors. The poetic principles that Wordsworth had presented in the ‘Preface’ of the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads essentially denounce a kind of revolution with respect to the critical notions concerning the lyrical language, the subject matter of the poetry, and also the role played by the poet. Dismissing the ...

The era of European civilization was marked by the French Revolution. The epoch was entangled in dialectic movements that tore it between romanticism and rationalism. The period marked the pick of literary works with several artists fronting different ideologies and eventual rejection of classicism. The fronting of romanticism came as a revolt against the intellectual order that had been glorified by rationalism. The critical period gave birth to great artists like Gerard Hopkins who followed in the footsteps of his father became an iconic figure in literary and poetic works that defined the era of romanticism (Caldecott 121-42). The ...