Conversation Poems

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  • Conversation Poems
    • Frost at Midnight
      • "The poem utilises a typically Romantic structure."
      • "The primary Imagination, I hold to be a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation."
      • "Coleridge famously defined imagination as the human mind's temporary replication of the divine creation of the world."
    • "He wrote rather little but what he wrote, he wrote superbly."
    • To William Wordsworth
      • Response to Wordsworth's 'The Prelude'.
      • "Seemingly the only poem he would write that troubled year."
      • Wordsworth was seen as a father figure.
      • "The poem is extravagant in   its very being."
      • "The poem is an epitaph for the passing of his poetic genius."
    • The Nightingale
      • "The protagonist reflects Coleridge."
      • "It is a vision that reaches towards a consistent philosophy of mans harmonious place in nature."
      • It is argued that the poem consistently alludes to and sustains a debate with Milton.
    • The Eolian Harp
    • Fears in Solitude
      • "Disproportio-nate qualities of thought and feeling exemplifies the problem of dictation Coleridge had to wrestle with."
      • "The combination of the personal and political is a discomforting juxtaposition."
    • Richard Holmes
      • One of his most fruitful creations.
      • All are beautifully polished and revised.
    • Distinctive group of blank-verse poems between   1794 - 1798.
    • Geoffrey Yarlott
  • George Dekker
  • S.T. Coleridge
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Adam Sisman
  • George Watson
  • Rosemary Ashton
  • Richard Holmes
  • Fred Randal
  • This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
  • Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
  • Nicholas Roe

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