Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Release Date: 2012-06-19
  • Genre: Literary Criticism

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It is nearly fifteen years since I was, for the first time, enabled to become a frequent and attentive visitor in Mr. Coleridge's domestic society. His exhibition of intellectual power in living discourse struck me at once as unique and transcendant; and upon my return home, on the very first evening which I spent with him after my boyhood, I committed to writing, as well as I could, the principal topics of his conversation in his own words. I had no settled design at that time of continuing the work, but simply made the note in something like a spirit of vexation that such a strain of music as I had just heard, should not last forever.