‘The Language of my Former Heart’: Coleridge's Letter to Sara Hutchinson, April 1802
‘The Language of my Former Heart’: Coleridge's Letter to Sara Hutchinson, April 1802
This chapter examines the complex framework of echoes, allusions, and cross-references that hold the poem together, seeming at one and the same time to assert a connection with the past and to suggest that this has been dissolved. Though offering a close reading, and mainly following the poem's own structure, the chapter pursues associations where they lead, in the hope of understanding what Coleridge called that subtle Vulcanian Spider-web Net of Steel — strong as Steel yet subtle as the Ether … in which my soul flutters inclosed with the Idea of Sara's.
Keywords: Echoes, allusions, cross-references, poem, Coleridge
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