Pride of Individuality: A New Critical Reading of "The Eolian Harp"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the original poets and thinkers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Though Coleridge co-authored The Lyrical Ballads with William Wordsworth, a foundational collection of poems that helped to define Romanticism, Coleridge was unique in his poetic style. While Wordsworth set forth the importance of writing with "a selection of language really used by men" (Leitch 650), Coleridge enjoyed the musical effects of language in their own right. …