Anima Poetæ

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Anima Poetæ is taken from the unpublished note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. A passage asks when the writer shall find time and ease to reduce his pocket-books and memorandums to an Index or Memoriæ Memorandorum. Short sayings include that the whale is followed by waves, and that men anxious for this world are like owls that wake all night to catch mice.

One entry says that at Genoa the word Liberty is engraved on the chains of the galley slaves and the doors of prisons. A passage headed The Sun of Righteousness speaks of a bodily substance, an unborrowed Self, God in God immanent, the Eternal Word. One line reads that the writer would glide down the rivulet of quiet life, a trout.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher, co-founder with Wordsworth of the Romantic movement. Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' he was also a profound literary theorist.