... time, reviewers were skeptical of "Christabel-. Most of them thought it to be extremely obscene. According to Marquery Durham, Coleridge did respond to their bad reviews with "I saw an old book in Coleorton in which the Paradise Lost was described as an obscene poem' so I am in good company."" (Bloom, Samuel T., 66). At another time Coleridge remarked that the theme of ... the Baptist, Jesus' faithfulest friend. In his dream, the dove is Christabel and the snake is Geraldine. "The dove- seems to suggest some redeeming Christ-like force in creation that guides humanity from primitive and...

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