Romantic Era

In 1797 and 1798 Coleridge wrote 3 poems which had no equal and which he himself was never again to equal or approach: "Chris...

In the beginning of the eighteenth century, imagination was not a cardinal point in poetical theory. For Pope and Johnson, as f...

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately Pleasure-Dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river ran Th...

Coleridge gave much thought to the Imagination. He considers poetry the product of the secondary imagination. The secondary imaginat...

Before going into this critical discussion about Romantic poetry, let me briefly introduce romanticism and the theory of romantic poets ab...