. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. ongly out-lined picture in the mind of the reader. 123. Coleridges best work. Coleridges best poetrywas written about the time of the publication of LyricalChristabei. Ballads. It was then that he composed Chris-1797-1800. tabel, the mystic tale of the innocent maidenwho is enthralled by the power of magic. Then, too, heKuWa wrote the dazzling fragment, Kubla Khan, partKhan. of a poem which, he said, came to him while he 1797 slept. The rest of it was driven from his mem-ory by an interruption. Whatever Coleridge tou
. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. ongly out-lined picture in the mind of the reader. 123. Coleridges best work. Coleridges best poetrywas written about the time of the publication of LyricalChristabei. Ballads. It was then that he composed Chris-1797-1800. tabel, the mystic tale of the innocent maidenwho is enthralled by the power of magic. Then, too, heKuWa wrote the dazzling fragment, Kubla Khan, partKhan. of a poem which, he said, came to him while he 1797 slept. The rest of it was driven from his mem-ory by an interruption. Whatever Coleridge touchedwith his poetic gift was rich and splendid; but nearly 1797-1834] THE CENTURY OF THE NOVEL 201 everything was incomplete. So it was in prose. Noone can read a single page of his writings without real-izing that their author was a man of deep and originalthought and of rarely equalled ability; and yet incom-here, too, all was unfinished. Coleridge said he trembled at the thought of the question, I gavethee so many talents ; what hast thou done with them ?. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE1772-1834 His excuse was a certain weakness of the will. This wasincreased by the use of opium, which he began to taketo quiet pain, and which was for many years his great man, who influenced every one that heardhim speak or that read his written words, was utterlywithout ability to command his own powers, to governhis own mind. He has left little save fragments, — butthey are magnificent fragments. 202 ENGLANDS LITERATURE [1802-1830 124. Wordsworths life. Wordsworths life wasquite unlike that of Coleridge. He married in 1802,and, as he said, was conscious of blessedness in hismarriage. A sum of money which had been due to his* father was at last paid to him, and he lived on happilyand tranquilly in his beloved Lake Country, makingmany trips abroad or to different parts of the BritishIsles. He was a keen lover of beauty, but the beauty ofnature rather than that of art. He
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