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Aug 31, 2002 13:31

A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedI would scour the library as a kid looking for things that fed my appetite for the strange or profound. Often I’d end up confused attempting to read and consume works that were way over my head. The thing that drew me to Coleridge & the rime of the ancient mariner was - ( Read more... )

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coleridge! kixie August 31 2002, 19:57:54 UTC

Ooh, I've loved Coleridge since I was 15 when I first read a snippet of a poem of his - I'd just been diagnosed and I read Dejection, the bit that goes "a grief without a pang, void dark and drear, a drowsy stifled unimpassioned grief that finds no natural outlet of relief in word, sigh or tear" which was the first thing that I read that honestly put its finger on exactly how I'd been feeling. Of course Coleridge was quite the depressive himself, hence the poem called 'Dejection: An Ode to', but I just gobbled up his other works after I recovered - Kubla Kahn was just one of my favourites. I loved the landscapes it made in my mind, I just got lost in it. Wonderful wonderful poet.

He had a house at the bottom of Eaton Sq which is by my parents house. Sometimes when I'm just walking around at night (that entire area is full of those blue plaques with 'so and so lived here') I walk down to his house and just sit there for awhile. It's by teh church and is really peaceful at night...

So, Roundhouse here I come. I've been to some wonderful events there...photography exhibitions, a few gigs...I love that place.

Re: coleridge! zerozero September 1 2002, 01:02:48 UTC

I figured if anyone would like a Coleridge it would be you. (hell you even like Dante!)

Re: coleridge! kixie September 1 2002, 04:41:54 UTC

Oh shaddup.

I draw the line at Milton.

Re: coleridge! latristesse September 1 2002, 12:20:32 UTC

Do you really prefer 'The Divine Comedy' to 'Paradise Lost'?! Admittedly I've only read 'Inferno' and bits of 'Purgatory' but Milton's Satan is fantastic!

Re: coleridge! kixie September 2 2002, 02:31:43 UTC

Milton's Satan is better, I'll grant that, but on the whole I'm basing this on the fact I was able to not get annoyed at the Divine Comedy and have reread it a few times - I read Milton 1/1/2 times (don't ask) and it always gets on my nerves. It's too...pious.

Maybe because the whole time in DC Dante is kind of flagellating himself for being in love with Beatrice I don't get as annoyed, I'm not sure, I guess it boils down to 'like/not like' which is basic but...-shrug-

And don't bother with Paradise, it's the worst of the lot. Really, Inferno is the overly publicised one for a reason.

Re: coleridge! bohofaery September 1 2002, 04:43:53 UTC

(hell, she even talked me into reading Dante!)

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