By Harold Bloom, Janyce Marson
Coleridge's poetry frequently overshadows the brilliance of the opposite sorts of writing he selected to pursue. His severe paintings finds a wealth of profoundly delicate observations and a prophetic imaginative and prescient of compelling authenticity. learn a few of his works and poetry, together with Kubla Kahn, and his conception of secondary mind's eye. This name, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a part of Chelsea condominium Publishers’ smooth serious perspectives sequence, examines the key works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge via full-length serious essays by means of professional literary critics. furthermore, this name incorporates a brief biography on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a chronology of the author’s existence, and an introductory essay written by means of Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the arts, Yale collage.
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For his part, Hood provides an amusing account of an unfinished portrait Coleridge had in his possession. Coleridge apparently used this painting as proof of his popularity and would furnish it whenever there was a new review or public notice of his work. With benign intentions toward the poet, Hood provides a comical rendering of the poet’s habit: “What a model, methought, as I watched and admired the ‘Old Man eloquent,’ for a Christian bishop! But he was, perhaps, scarcely orthodox enough to be trusted with a mitre.
Added to this strange amalgam of opposing character traits was the fact that he was addicted to opium, which, Hunt hastens to add, might have resolved this conflict in a man of lesser intellect such as Dryden. With respect to Coleridge’s philosophical investigations and abstruse arguments, Hunt asserts that it was reasonable for such an extraordinary and powerful intellect to test the limits of knowledge. In his concluding commentary on Coleridge’s final days at Highgate, Hunt praises the poet for the undefeated and youthful vitality of his verses.
C. stepped into the shop, had his portly bottle filled with laudanum, (which he always carried in his pocket) and then expeditiously placed himself in the spot where he was left. ” “As I am mistaken, never mind the rest,” said Mr. C. and walked on. —Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections, Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1837, vol. 2, pp. 169–172 Personal 21 Thomas Hood () Thomas Hood (1784–1859) was an essayist, journalist, and co-founder of the radical weekly periodical The Examiner.