Essay on Coleridge

Question: “How does any writer on the course treat the figure of the social outcast or outsider?” For the purposes of this assignment I will be examining two of Coleridge’s most notable poetic works; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan”. From “The Rime” I will be examining the poets treatment of the “Mariner” himself and from “Kubla Khan“ both “Kubla Khan” and the unnamed ‘poetic presence’ that is makes its self …

…argue (considering Bostetter’s point) that this is an inaccurate suggestion then I would direct them to Whalley’s original article and examine the evidence on Coleridge’s character presented there. Indeed, the moderist poet TS Elliot is reported (by John Beer) to have said: “… for a few years Coleridge had been visited by the Muse ( I know of no poet to whom this hackneyed metaphor is better applicable) and thenceforth was a haunted man.”