. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. d flattered by the breath ofpopularity. The funeral bell had a muchlivelier and wider echo at the decease of Byronor Scott. And yet, the life-work of Coleridgeis more valuable than that of either of poetic genius was at least equal to theirs,and he, much more than either of them, dealtin ideas, in generative thought. Only a choicecircle felt what a void was made in the intel-lectual atmosphere of England. The pen andtongue of an original thinker, of an eloquentexpounder of fruitful truths, had ceased tomove forever. By one w
. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. d flattered by the breath ofpopularity. The funeral bell had a muchlivelier and wider echo at the decease of Byronor Scott. And yet, the life-work of Coleridgeis more valuable than that of either of poetic genius was at least equal to theirs,and he, much more than either of them, dealtin ideas, in generative thought. Only a choicecircle felt what a void was made in the intel-lectual atmosphere of England. The pen andtongue of an original thinker, of an eloquentexpounder of fruitful truths, had ceased tomove forever. By one who had known him from boyhood,who for fifty years had enjoyed the privilegeof unbroken friendship with him, a touch-ing tribute was paid to Coleridge. For someweeks after his decease, in the midst of con-versation among friends, the noble counte-nance of Charles Lamb would suddenly growabstracted, and solemnly, half interrogatively,he would exclaim, Coleridge , is dead! asthough such a death were too enormous to betaken into the mind : Coleridge is dead !.
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