This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...never again be content to dance in a court-dress with Pope, or to go through a course of gymnastics with Dryden, or to sit by the fireside with Cowper, or to mount the pulpit with Young. If Coleridge produced little in his after-life that equalled the richness of those blossoming years from 1796 to 1800, it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...never again be content to dance in a court-dress with Pope, or to go through a course of gymnastics with Dryden, or to sit by the fireside with Cowper, or to mount the pulpit with Young. If Coleridge produced little in his after-life that equalled the richness of those blossoming years from 1796 to 1800, it was not that intellectual or imaginative activity fell short; the activities were all there, but they revolved into themselves; and the moral will, enervated by opium, was wanting in power to determine and give effect to them. I have always thought that Coleridge was describing his own states of mind when he speaks of "joy above the name of pleasure, Deep self-possession, an intense repose.... No other than as Eastern sages paint The God who floats upon a lotos leaf, Dreams for a thousand ages, then awaking, Creates a world, and, smiling at the bubble, Relapses into bliss." Wordsworth, on the contrary, vrote, in my opinion, too much poetry; as most men will who live long and write little else, and have no employment save that of meditation and composition. But his poetry takes concentrated forms as well as those which permit him to be diffuse; and, when at last it found its field of operation free from the rank growths of the first quarter of this century, it exercised a great fertilizing and cultivating power; insomuch that, within the limits of the thoughtful classes, the mind of at least one generation may be said to have been moulded by it. The first opening of their minds to Wordsworth was effected by Professor Wilson and his associates in Slackwoods Magazine; and this opening was widened, I think, by two articles of mine in the Quarterly JKeview, one of which, I was told by the publisher at the time, had doubled the sale of his works....
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