Coleridge critics

• Lime-tree: Dickstein - 'he becomes a kind of...?


  Prospero ... magically in touch with the hiding places of power in the universe'
• Lime-tree: Dickstein - 'He joins them...


  more intensely in thought that they could have in person'
• What did Rosemary Ashton say about To William Wordsworth?

  ‘The poem is an epitaph for the passing for his poetic genius’
• What did Dickstein say about the Aeolian Harp?

  ‘A terrible omen for their marriage’
• What did Joseph McQueen say about Aeolian Harp?

  It ‘registers the tension between two Christianities, one secularised, the other fully enchanted’
• Robinson (Frost at Midnight): ‘an elegy to the speaker’s lost youth’
• Whalley (Rime) - 'Life-in-death meant to....

  Coleridge a mixture of remorse and loneliness'
• Whalley (Rime) - 'remorse is an...

  emotion easy to find in the poem'
• Robert Penn Warren (Rime) - 'reenacts...


  the fall'
• (Rime) How does Robert Penn Warren describe the killing of the albatross?

  'Unmotivated'
• [Mariner, Kubla, Christabel] Jones and Tydeman - 'no-one...

  can deny the serious moral nature of these poems'
• Richard Holmes - 'Coleridge was interested in...

  exploring such extreme states of mind and feeling'
• (Kubla Khan) Hardold Bloom: "Kubla has...

  power and can command magnificence"
• (Kubla Khan) Humphrey House: "it images the power of...


  man over his environment and the fact that man makes paradise for himself"
• (Kubla Khan) Watson: "the overwhelmingly important fact about the poem is...

  ... its artificiality"
• Geoffrey Yarlott - "his troubling fiction...


  applies all too closely to his own situation'
• Richard Holmes - "how strange, how captivating...


  how haunted Coleridge's actual poems are"
• George Whalley - "Coleridge was a...


  confirmed symbolist"
• Gravil - (Christabel) - 'is centered...


  on the cruel domination and marginalisation of women in the patriarchy'