Re: Book of the month quote?

Ok, but did Coleridge's egotism come through his poetry?

Jim

JennyVV@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/7/2002 10:52:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> jrovira@drew.edu writes:
>
> << I feel the same way. But I don't think it was a matter of taste this time.
> Some of Wordworth's early poetry is absolutely intoxicating. I think the
> difference is the presence of Ego in Wordsworth vs. the same in Blake,
> Coleridge, and Keats.
>
> Reading Blake, for example, I get the distinct feeling that the things Blake
> wrote about were more important to Blake than Blake himself. Reading
> Wordsworth, I get the feeling that imagination and nature wasn't nearly so
> important as WORDSWORTH'S imagination and HIS perception of nature. I feel
> like Wordsworth is content to remain stuck in his head and amuse himself with
> his own imagination, while Blake uses his imagination to gain insight into
> Something Else, and it's this Something Else that's really important to him.
> >>
>
> Ah, Wordsworth, the lovely Idiot Boy. My favorite criticism of his ego comes
> from a letter by Keats: "How beautiful are the retired flowers! How would
> they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out,
> 'Admire me, I am a violet!', 'Dote upon me, I am a primrose!'."
> But it seems to me that Coleridge in all his complaining about injured feet
> and too many Sara's isn't exactly lacking the egotistical sublime.
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