...entitled Dejection, stanza six, occurs the following passage : — " For not to think of what I needs mtmt feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Considering the exquisite quality of some poem* which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or...

...passage : — " For not to think of what I needs mu»t feel, But to be still and patient all I can, Anil haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul." Considering the exquisite quality of some poems which Coleridge has composed, nobody can grieve (or...

...entitled Dejection, stanza six, occurs the following passage : — " For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by abstrute research to steal From my men nature all the natural man, — This was my sole resource, my...

...paralysis ("and still I gaze — and with how blank an eye" [30]) becomes a function of psychic infection: "that which suits a part infects the whole, / And now is almost grown the habit of my soul" (92-93; italics mine). 8. So too, at times, even Coleridge: "all must have observed in common life,...

...results in the most evasive passage in all of Coleridge's poetry: For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can;...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. (PW, i, p. 367, lines 87-93) What is it that the speaker can't help feeling but mustn't think about?...

...what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal 90 From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan: 75/76 VI] V...

...I that they rob me of my mirth; My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can;...research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — 90 This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And...

...literary pleasure. So Coleridge, in "Dejection," speaks of being taken over by his analytic temper: "Till that which suits a part infects the whole,/ And now is almost grown the habit of my soul" (92-3). To this point, I think, much of academic literary criticism has now come. But it need not stay...

...REJOINDER TO A CRITIC You may be right: "How can I dare to feel?" May be the only question I can pose, "And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man" My sole resource. And I do not suppose That others may not have a better plan. And yet I'll quote again,...

...(CPW i. 364). The metaphysical explanation reappears: For not to think of what I needs must feel, Mui to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse...steal From my own nature all the natural man — This w as my sole resource, my onh plan: Till that which snits a part infests the whole, And now is almost...