Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem has similar poetic structure to that of William Wordsworth)(Critical Essay)

From: The Explicator | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

According to M. H. Abrams, a "Virgilian sense of lachrimae rerum" resides in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," wherein "life is growth, but growth means loss, and the loss deeply matters" (445). Such loss is inevitably the product of poetic development that, for two of the first-generation British romantics, begins with a series of "beauteous forms" (line 22). These natural objects generate "sensations sweet" (27), which the poet subsequently compresses into an "aspect more sublime," "that serene and blessed mood / In which the affections gently lead us on" (37, 41-42). Doing so ...

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