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An 8 page paper comparing and contrasting the styles and philosophies of these two early nineteenth-century poets. The paper uses as examples Wordsworth's 'Ode on the Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' and Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' , and concludes that whereas Wordsworth's poetry is philosophy in verse, Coleridge gives us images we can see and feel. Bibliography lists six sources.
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File: D0_Cwpoem.rtf
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. These two poets were almost exactly the same age. They spent half of their lives as inseparable friends. And yet it would be difficult to find two
poems more different in every respect than Wordsworths "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" and Coleridges "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Why? This paper will
look at the complex relationship between the two men and analyze their differing approaches to poetry in terms of both philosophy and affect. According to Peter Quennell, author of A
History of English Literature, Wordsworth and Coleridge first became friends in the early 1790s, when both men were in their early twenties. Wordsworth was fascinated with the way that Coleridge
could "[throw] out . . . grand central truths from which might be evolved the most comprehensive [philosophical] systems," (Wordsworth, quoted in Quennell, 296). and later was to remark that
Coleridge was one of the two people in the world from whom he had learned the most. Coleridge was no less complementary about his new friend, remarking that Wordsworth was
"a very great man, the only man to whom at all times. . . I feel myself inferior" (Coleridge, quoted in Quennell, 296). Quennell goes on to observe that "both
poets intended to discard the pompous idiom of eighteenth century verse, and to employ the real language of modern men and women -- but of human beings in a state
of vivid sensation, when they expressed themselves with natural eloquence" (Quennell, 297). They collaborated on a book, Lyrical Ballads, in 1798, while their two families lived side by side. However,
by middle age their friendship foundered. Coleridge, always by far the most unstable of the two, began drinking and using opium in terrifying quantities to dull the pain of an
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