... 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 "Christabel- is "that the virtuous of this world save the wicked- (Bloom, Modern Critical, 217). Both of these remarks stated by Coleridge himself support his religious intent of the poem, for Paradise Lost is a story of God and Satan; and the virtuous saving the wicked is good ... resulted as enemies. The "madness in brain" resembles accounts of King Arthur's madness when the fellowship and trust of...

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... that suggested an argument for social change in early nineteenth century Britain, reproving Roman Catholicism in favour of the virtues of Protestantism. The instability of theology offered Gothic Literature the confidence to query the supremacy of religion in text, for example in The Monk, where there is, according to critic David Stephens '...in effect a conflation of Roman Catholicism and blind superstition.'3 Both here and in the character of Father Jerome in Walpole's archetypical The Castle of Otranto, Gothic authors have presented religious ... looks were free'8. Coleridge's apt u...

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