Wilkinson's preliminary discourses to these translations and his criticisms of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's comments on Swedenborg displayed an aptitude not only for mystical research, but also for original philosophic debate.

Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).

One of his most remarkably inventive works is the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner ( 1839 ) based on Samuel Coleridge's famous poem, which recently sold at Sotheby's for ₤ 27, 000.

Additionally, many of the images are connected to a broad use of Ash Farm and the Quantocks in Coleridge's poetry, and the mystical settings of both Osorio and Kubla Khan are based on his idealised version of the region.

She is also similar to the later subject of many of Coleridge's poems, Asra, based on Sara Hutchinson, whom Coleridge wanted but was not his wife and experienced opium induced dreams of being with her.

The critics were more provocative than those of the previous generation, and much of the bad reception was based on Coleridge's timing of publication and his own political views, much of which contrasted with those of the critics, than actual content.

Coleridge's statements on the origin of the poem were considered again by various critics with an emphasis on how the origins affected the merits of the poem.

Critics of the 1960s focused on the reputation of the poem and how it compared to Coleridge's other poems.

In 2002, J. C. C. Mays pointed out that " Coleridge's claim to be a great poet lies in the continued pursuit of the consequences of ' The Ancient Mariner ,' ' Christabel ' and ' Kubla Khan ' on several levels.

'" He goes on to explain the " daemonic ": " Opium was the avenging daemon or alastor of Coleridge's life, his dark or fallen angel, his experiential acquaintance with Milton's Satan.

The first Dictionary fascicle was published on 1 February 1884 — twenty-three years after Coleridge's sample pages.

Published in 1818, it was based on a number of sources, including Ovid's myth of Prometheus ( indeed, the novel is subtitled " The Modern Prometheus "), Milton's Paradise Lost, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and William Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek.

The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration ( 1772 – 1775 ) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean ; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.

He wrote introductions for a few books such as a new edition of George Borrow's Wild Wales ; he gave radio talks on the BBC Third Programme ; he even tried his hand at an extended consideration of Coleridge's poem for a reprinting of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner featuring his own introduction and illustrations with a series of copper engravings.

Southey's wife, Edith Fricker, whom he married at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, on 14 November 1795, was the sister of Coleridge's wife, Sara Fricker.

Picked up by London publisher Harrap, he started with two commissions which were never completed: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( his work on which was destroyed during the 1916 Easter Rising ) and an illustrated edition of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.

* January 2-Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecture on Hamlet is given as part of a series of lectures on drama and Shakespeare ; it has influenced Hamlet studies ever since.

Fortuitously, Lamb's first publication was in 1796, when four sonnets by " Mr. Charles Lamb of the India House " appeared in Coleridge's Poems on Various Subjects.

Lamb's first publication was the inclusion of four sonnets in the Coleridge's Poems on Various Subjects published in 1796 by Joseph Cottle.

Scholars have noted a number of literary influences on " To Autumn ", from Virgil's Georgics, to Edmund Spenser's " Mutability Cantos ", to the language of Thomas Chatterton, to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " Frost at Midnight ", to an essay on autumn by Leigh Hunt, which Keats had recently read.

It is based on the early lives of English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, in particular their collaboration on the " Lyrical Ballads ", and Coleridge's writing of Kubla Khan.

As a whole, the poem is connected to Coleridge's belief in a secondary Imagination that can lead a poet into a world of imagination, and the poem is both a description of that world and a description of how the poet enters the world.

In evaluating Coleridge's poetry, it can readily be seen and accepted that for the poems of high imagination his reputation is eternally made.

The ghost then begins seeking out someone whose hardship can be influenced by Coleridge's work.

The woman may also refer to Mnemosyne, the Greek personification of memory and mother of the muses, referring directly to Coleridge's claimed struggle to compose this poem from memory of a dream.

The sources used for Kubla Khan are also those used in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

The essay on Coleridge reprints ' Coleridge's Writings ' ( 1866 ) but omits its explicitly anti-Christian passages ; it also includes paragraphs on Coleridge's poetry that Pater had contributed to T. H. Ward's The English Poets ( 1880 ).

He has also investigated how readers accept, while reading, improbable or fantastic things ( Coleridge's " willing suspension of disbelief "), but discard them after they have finished.

See also Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age ; Coleridge's Notes on English Divines ; Carlyle's Miscellanies, and Carlyle's Reminiscences, vol.

Thomas, a champion of lost works by black composers, also revived Coleridge's Hiawatha's Wedding feast in a performance commemorating the composition's 100th anniversary with the Cambridge Community Chorus at Harvard's Sanders Theatre in the spring of 1998.

It is the earliest recorded rock climb in the Lake District ( not counting Coleridge's inadvertent descent of Scafell in 1802 ); subsequent Lakeland climbers also concentrated on Pillar, and by 1872 four different climbing routes had been pioneered on the rock.

The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry set the stage not only for Robert Burns, but also for Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth himself in the Preface to his and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads defined good poetry as “ the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ,” though in the same sentence he goes on to clarify this statement by asserting that nonetheless any poem of value must still be composed by a man “ possessed of more than usual organic sensibility has also thought long and deeply ;” he also emphasises the importance of the use of meter in poetry ( which he views as one of the key features that differentiates poetry from prose ).

He served as editor of Coleridge's Complete Works ( 7 vols, New York, 1894 ), and he also wrote:

Apart from writing poetry, Shah also translated into Gujarati Tagore's poetry collection Balaaka ; Jayadeva's Gita Govinda ; Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; and Dante's The Divine Comedy.

" An example of a so-called " Jonah " would be that of the sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, who was cursed to be lost at sea after he killed an albatross.

" The actual person from Porlock mentioned could be many people, including Wordsworth, Joseph Cottle, John Thelwall, Coleridge's wife, or merely a literary device.

" The review does praise the work as it continues, " Still if Mr. Coleridge's two hundred lines were all of equal merit with the following which he has preserved, we are ready to admit that he has reason to be grieved at their loss.

When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.

It is enough for the purpose of the analysis if it be granted that nowhere else in Coleridge's work, except in these and less noticeably in a few other instances, do these high characteristics occur.

First to be printed was an essay on the metaphysics of Coleridge, ' Coleridge's Writings ', contributed anonymously in 1866 to the Westminster Review.

Probably the religious opinions of Irving, originally in some respects more catholic and truer to human nature than generally prevailed in ecclesiastical circles, had gained breadth and comprehensiveness from his intercourse with Samuel Taylor Coleridge but gradually his chief interest in Coleridge's philosophy centred round what was mystical and obscure, and to it in all likelihood may be traced his initiation into the doctrine of millenarianism.

:" Much the greatest part of the story was Mr. Coleridge's invention ; but certain parts I myself suggested: — for example, some crime was to be committed which should bring upon the old Navigator, as Coleridge afterwards delighted to call him, the spectral persecution, as a consequence of that crime, and his own wanderings.

Byron, however, additionally took up the theme of a " Satanic " school and developed the " Byronic hero " ( not to be confused with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " Satanic Hero ") who would, like Satan in Paradise Lost, be a tragic figure who is admirable even when wrong.

One of his short pieces, the ‘ Old Year's Funeral ,’ was thought by James Montgomery to be worthy of comparison with Coleridge's ode ‘ On the Departing Year .’