...human passions, emotions, language. In Shakspeare's poems [ Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece], the creative power, and the intellectual energy wrestle...each with its shield before the breast of the other. Or like two rapid streams, that at their first meeting within narrow and rocky banks mutually strive...

...father's garden — One that did force your valiant son to yield,"] <fec. — Ed. * " In Shakspeare's Poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war-embrace. Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other. At length,...

...undoing of the Biographia Literaria, Like his description of Shakespeare's poetry, in Coleridge's thought 'the creative power, and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace', despite - or more accurately, because ofhis efforts to demonstrate their indifference." As will be...

...departments of a divided intellectual labour. What Coleridge says of Shakespeare's poems, that in them 'the creative power, and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace','5 is emphatically true both of his own criticism and of the sources of strength of criticism...

...one who wanted all the anomalies to be reconciled, but the one who understood that 'in Shakespeare's poems, the creative power and the intellectual energy...of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the 7 other. This book attempts to explore this last possibility. The remainder of this introduction investigates...

...ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. ... In Shakespeare's poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace" (2:19). The thinker, as well as the imaginative artist, adds a dimension to the poem, so that balance,...

...taste, its execrable enor"ties of feeling and incident could not iavc proceeded from the sweet and nature in which the poem had its birth. The best criticism...this is, it would perhaps be more exact to say, that in»his earlier poems his intellect, acting apart from his sensibility, and playing with its own ingenuities...

...fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language, In Shakespeare's poems the creative power and the intellectual energy...each with its shield before the breast of the other. Or like two rapid streams, that, at their first meeting within narrow and rocky banks, mutually strive...