How to Read William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 11:38 p.m.

b'This episode reads Wordsworth\\u2019s \\u201cTintern Abbey\\u201d and Coleridge\\u2019s \\u201cKubla Khan\\u201d in the context of Romantic poetry. We start with Coleridge\\u2019s vision in which \\u201cimages rose up before him as *things*,\\u201d before we turn to Wordsworth: \\u201cwell pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense / The anchor of my purest thoughts.\\u201d The poetry they wrote to capture these things and these thoughts is their legacy \\u2014 for every reader who feels deeply and struggles to describe those sensations.'