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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:35 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:17 pm
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...Coleridge opened up to modern poetry a realm of mystery and magic. Stories of bewitchings, hauntings, and possession - shaped by antiquated treatises on demonology, folklore, and Gothic novels - supplied him with the means of impressing upon readers a sense of occult powers and unknown modes of being. [...] On the one hand romances were writings that turned, in their quest for settings conducive to supernatural happenings, to "strange fits of passion" and strange adventures, to distant pasts, faraway places, or both...
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:25 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:13 pm
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