1. The Christ in Christabel
... Along with philosophical views, he had great intelligence in math and geometry (Franson, 2). A very brilliant man wrote "Christabel-. In that 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 "Christabel- is "that the virtuous of this world save ... the wicked- (Blo...
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