...think: TSE marked Defection 87-90 in his copy of Coleridge's Poetical Works (1907, Houghton Library): For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...research to steal From my own nature all the natural man i—2 feel . . . think . . . pen and ink: twelve days after his father's death, TSE wrote to his mother,...

...But oh! each visitation Suspends what Nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is grown almost the habit of my soul. What Altieri calls rhetoricity is a two-edged sword. All poetry...

...But oh! each visitation Suspends what Nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is grown almost the habit of my soul. What Altieri calls rhetoricity is a two-edged sword. All poetry...

...But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan. (82-9i) Now that his wishes for the future have been cut off, he has entered a curious limbo, wherein...

...must feel, 2-5 But to be still & patient all I can; 2-5 And haply by abstruse research to steal 2-5 From my own Nature all the natural Man; This was my sole Resource, my wisest Plan — 93 1 And now is almost grown the Temper of my Soul! 2-5 habit 93* / (The sixth and...

...spirit of Imagination" (line 86), and the counterbalancing example of Milton becomes evident again: For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul, (lines 87-93) The irregular rhyming in stanzas IV-VI attains a set and formal close in the preceding...

...the page. 335 15. 10 § 2. C/Vii. 2036. 19-20 April 1804. 4-5. Cf. 'Dejection: An Ode', ll. 87-91: 'For not to think of what I needs must feel, | But...natural man - | This was my sole resource, my only plan' (CPW\. 367). 6. you : you CN. 8-9. [?some Rock] : some Rock CN. [rtogether or] : together or CN.J is...

...But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel. But to...research to steal From my own nature all the natural man (82-90) The final two stanzas turn outward again with the hope that the winter's storm is only a 'mountain-birth'...

...& living Motions for it's Sorrow. For not to think of what I needs must feel, 265 But to be still & patient all I can; And haply by abstruse Research...all the Natural Man This was my sole Resource, my wisest plan! And that, which suits a part, infects the whole, 270 And now is almost grown the Temper...

...becomes for Coleridge the elixir of life. As early as 1802 Coleridge attests to its therapeutic powers: And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own...whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul. (Poetical Works 1: 367) Philosophy, too, can be habit forming. A Truth habit is much more acceptable...