What is it about?
STC's work escapes the solipsism of Wordsworth only to be trapped by the seductions of silence--of saying nothing, or to rest in silence like the icicles "Quietly shining like the quiet moon" at the end of "Frost at Midnight."
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Why is it important?
For a long time students of STC's poetry have guessed at the internal structure or architectonic, the "why" of the conversation poems.
Perspectives
The essay includes a reading of "Alice du Clos," a poem nearly no one discusses, and its relationship to the earlier conversation poems of STC's mid- to late-twenties.
J. T. Barbarese
Rutgers University Camden
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This page is a summary of: Dramas of Naming in Coleridge, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, January 1997, JSTOR,
DOI: 10.2307/451066.
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