REVIEW and OVERVIEW:
--“The Lake Poets”: WW, STC, RS
--“The Big Six”: WB, WW, STC, PBS, LB, JK
--“The First Generation”: Wordsworth & Coleridge (we leave out Blake)
--“The Second Generation”: Shelley and Keats (we leave out Byron)

S. T. COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
--Wordsworth: interiority/power of harmony
--Coleridge: Unity/Imagination
--Conversation Poems/Mystery Poems

430/422 "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1797/98; 1817)
--UNITY and Unitarian view of God: "'tis God, / Diffused through all that doth make all one whole."
--Reading 1 = presence of God (sin/punishment/repentance/atonement etc.)
--Reading 2 = absence of God/ an "Anarchy of Spirits"
--Reading 3 = unreliable narrator
--The status of the marginal glosses (added 1817)
--The moral of the poem?

Romantic Characteristics?
1. Egalitarianism: Revolution's equality
2. Ballad form: folk-song; word-patterns acting as mnemonics (ll. 103-04; ll. 119-122); “ordinary language”
3. Latin epigraph (430 /422): invisible, otherworldly.

Anti-theatricality? Romantic individuality? Romantic genius?

Next class: Women Romantics, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen.