“But metre itself implies a passion, i. e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Letter to William Sotheby (13 July 1802)
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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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