(26) See also Michael Timko, "Wordsworth's 'Ode' and Arnold's 'Dover Beach': Celestial Light and Confused Alarms," Cithara 13 (1973): 59; and Nils Clausson, "Arnold's
Coleridgean Conversation Poem: 'Dover Beach' and 'The Eolian Harp,'" PLL 44, no.
Abu Madi's poetry lack the philosophical complicatedness of the three romantic poets mentioned above since he did not highlight Wordsworthian pantheistic naturalism,
Coleridgean theism, and Shelleyean platonic idealism.
(3) On the relationship of
Coleridgean and Kantian ethics, see Laurence S.
The ever symbolic alba tross, harbinger of death (shades of the famous
Coleridgean poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"), plays constantly on his mind, though in the end, it is not the giant bird that brings about his doom but his vindictive comrades.
Simile is to metaphor as allegory to symbol and as "fancy," in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's writings, is to "imagination": only the second has the "esemplastic" (another
Coleridgean term) power to create something new.
(1798), where the
Coleridgean flame in the grate 'flutters'
Kubla Khan is not only a
Coleridgean reconciliation of opposites, and so an exemplification of the
Coleridgean concept of imagination as defined in Biographia Literaria (Chapter XIV), but also an exercise in the aesthetics of the sublime as understood by him as well as by Edmund Burke, before him, in his A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757).
Each is burdened by a
Coleridgean albatross that impedes the pursuit of contentment.
In
Coleridgean tradition, the dangers posed by an inclination towards moral absolutism were kept at bay by a pluralist willingness to see partial truths in the arguments of those with whom one disagrees (pp.
History brooks no
Coleridgean miracles of imaginative labor However, there can be an expansion of consciousness worthy of the increasing intensity in the anaphoric gestures characterizing each of the structural moments.
This is also the
Coleridgean notion of imagination.
The obvious illustration would involve the familiar (
Coleridgean) distinction between the Bunyan of Parnassus and the Bunyan of the Conventicle.