Tim, yes, those who came after him were, indeed, influenced by “that side of him”. The other side, though, the poems where his empiricism isn’t as pronounced—and there were some—are sometimes seen as not up to being his best work. In a way, you could say that he is not so much to blame for his influence (if that makes sense) than his later proselytisers are, people such as Edward Thomas etc.
Coleridge is confusing, and that is why I am reluctant to discuss him here, outside of the context of my thesis, which needs to be read to avoid common misunderstandings of what he actually believed and thought about the ideals of empiricism and transcendentalism in poetry. He did later on depart to some extent (though not as great as some people think) from the more extreme empiricism of Wordsworth, but was an avid supporter of his for many years before that, accepting Wordsworth’s poetic ideas as almost gospel. He was far less dogmatic than Wordsworth, though.
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I'd buy that Jeffrey, the only change I would make in that sentence would be, "those who came afterwards were specifically influenced by THAT SIDE OF him." But I get lost in the sort of exchange you are having with G. Greenway, when it comes down to picking out lines and saying that such a line points to this belief or that belief. I know it's what we do, indeed, what we have to do sometimes, but when its within a polarised black and white like this I just find it too iffy.
Re Coleridge: I get confused by Coleridge. And I am never quite sure if it's because he was confused himself. One thing we have to remember is that those people lived in a world where they had to deal with the default metaphysic of believing in God, which means that their relationship to various abstract philosophical concepts was not the same as that of a C20 atheist, even though the concepts have the same meaning on paper. Do you know what I mean?
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