COLERIDGE, S.T. - Everyman`s Poetry

If the voice that is heard in the later poetry is a more labouring one, it is one that remains true to Coleridge's great themes.

The role of imagination was always hard to come to terms with: sometimes it seemed to have acted as a dangerous and elusive will-o-the-wisp, sometimes it seemed to have been no less than the vision and the faculty divine.