... other virtues. An act of any one of these was equal to an act of assurance. He also felt that an act of faith was analogous to an act of a poet because both bring entire soul of man into realm of activity (Barth, Symbolic, 12-13). His life was an expedition for unity, and the perceiving of symbols was a devout performance ... evil. The poem was stormed with abused when published, however. According to the Quarterly Review, "Christabel- was a "downright simplicity and insidious cheap novel- (Harper 173). It was praised by Lord Byron, however, and actually defended by Coleridge's good fri...

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