Coleridge
#1
His
rolling eyes, a sea never becalmed, always in motion; his large,
fleshy gaping mouth, a fish struggling for breath; and his hair, a
black glossy mass.
Coleridge,
wild and strange. A Romantic Poet; a visionary Philosopher.
Charismatic and hypnotic. Wordsworth, in comparison, a drier
character.
Coleridge
#2
Coleridge,
a wolf, wrapped in a greatcoat: What Imagination! What Language! What
Fast Science! What Eyes! What Milk-white Forehead!
Coleridge,
from whom nothing escapes.
Coleridge
#3
Coleridge,
figuratively running wild and blind in the deserts of Arabia,
screaming 'Wordsworth!'
Coleridge,
an outburst of emotions.
Coleridge
#4
Coleridge,
a mind that had much to do; that gave its attention to the visible,
the invisible, and the evocative; hovered between images, like a
Kingfisher in short flight, thereby permitting its observant eye to
see and define everything it was surrounded by.
Coleridge
#5
Coleridge,
the German scholar, a mass of information; holding forth
enthusiastically on any topic. Him, the sun of a young and admiring
circle.
Coleridge
#6
Coleridge,
an alleged kleptomaniac. Jumping from foreign rock to foreign rock,
smuggling valuables across borders, in disguise. His large prominent
eye fixed upon his own image in glittering waters.
Coleridge
#7
Coleridge,
the fatal Genius; all things to all men, tho' uncertain about his
true direction. Dreamed more than planned; planned more than could be
executed. Coleridge, in a restless whirl, or ecstatic state, unable
to concentrate. Or absorbed, wholly absorbed, in his inner world of
thoughts and feeling.
Coleridge
#8
Coleridge,
a pure scribbler; a political, poetical reporter, displaying his
extensive knowledge and well-grounded foresight, defending Liberty
and the Rights of Nature.
Coleridge,
a translator, in a five-penny floral dressing-gown decorated with
hieroglyphics, alone in his study, losing himself in his work.
Coleridge
#9
Coleridge,
a drifter and dreamer, always looking to, and searching for, a
sublime and beautiful visual existence.
Picture credit: The Dreamer, Caspar David Friedrich (source: WikiArt).
Source material: Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes.
Written October 2021.
