A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
A Literary Trick So Smooth, Even Ghosts Got Good Reviews There once was a man who believed you could have philosophical conversations with albatrosses, write poems about ancient mariners, and still be taken seriously by 19th-century readers in top hats. His name? Samuel Taylor Coleridge. And he had a problem. Not with laudanum (well, also […]
Red carpet entrance: Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1798 — Lyrical Ballads drops like a literary blockbuster. From The Professor’s Desk There are moments in literary history when one age does not simply end and another begin — rather, the new age arrives walking upon a red carpet woven by its quiet forerunners. So it was in
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A Poem Where Palaces Float, Rivers Run Deep, and No One’s Entirely Sober ABS Believes:This poem wasn’t written—it wandered in.Sometimes a dream builds better architecture than any empire can. Coleridge: Poet, Prophet, and Possibly Too Close to the Poppy Fields Let’s begin with a quick historical footnote: Kubla Khan is what happens when you mix