...claims for Christabel that the variation in the number of syllables is ' not introduced wantonly . . . but in correspondence with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.' A like freedom was used by our old poets, who at times employed — as in the Csedmonian poems and...

...point in the preface to the first edition— " The metre of ' Christabel' is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion." p. 69. KUBLA KHAN. First published in 1816, along with ' Christabel' and ' The Pains of Sleep.' Coleridge...

...old volume in order to see what he can appropriate." — Letter to Mr. SE Dawson, November 21, 1882. found to be only four. Nevertheless this occasional...transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion." 1. 1. "Tis the middle of night, etc. "The circumstances with which the poem opens are admirably conceived....

...certain effects to be produced definitely and consciously, and his ability knowingly to produce them. the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven...transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion." The principle Coleridge here lays down, although unfamiliar to the eighteenth century with its rigid...

...certain effects to be produced definitely and consciously, and his ability knowingly to produce them. the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven...transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion." The principle Coleridge here lays down, although unfamiliar to the eighteenth century with its rigid...

...purely stressed verse, whereas it is not. He says that the metre of it is 'founded on a. nm frincifle, namely, that of counting in each line the accents,...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.' Now here was, as far as it went, a definite statement of the laws of a stress prosody ; but if we examine...

...will be found to be only four. Nevertheless, this occasional variation in the number of syllables js not introduced wantonly or for the mere ends of convenience,...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.' Apart from the buoyancy of the rhythm, two points in the technique of the poem deserve mention. One...

...each line, the Accents will be found to be only Four. Nevertheless this occasional variation in the number of Syllables is not introduced wantonly, or...correspondence with some transition in the nature of imagery, or Passion. 268 CHRISTABEL. PART I. 'TIs the middle of night by the Castle clock, And the...

...variations of the octosyllabic couplet. These variations, Coleridge said, were not introduced wantonly but " in correspondence with some transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion." A single passage will illustrate this: But when the lady passed, there came A tongue of light, a fit...

...Christabel, and like Goethe's Erl King, has several variations introduced (as Coleridge says of his own) 'in correspondence with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.' The ' new principle,' in short, was Chatterton's. Again, in the mysterious suggestiveness of remote...