Between the two poems, however, there are differences as well as similarities - the most obvious being probably intimately linked with the different dispositions of the two poets. While Coleridge fuses the natural with the supernatural in a nevertheless vivid description of one man's suffering in the open sea where he is left at the mercy of the elements, Byron's description is much more realistic as a portrayal of a man who is going through great psychological torment. ... In both poems, however, there seems to be no explicit reason for him being alive; while Coleridge employs a sup...

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There was no revolt of the prose-writers against the eighteenth century comparable to that of the poets, but a change had taken place in the prose-style also. ... Though some Romantic poets-Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron-wrote excellent prose in their critical writings, letters and journals, and some of the novelists like Scott and Jane Austen were masters of prose-style, those who wrote prose for its own sake in the form of the essays and attained excellence in the art of prose-writing were Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey. ... Wordsworth influentially located the source of a poem not in out...

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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). ... It was praised by Lord Byron, however, and actually defended by Coleridge's good friend Morgan, "It is not on the story itself but on the management and arrangement of it. It is by the fitness of the manners, the death of the passions, the definiteness and consistency of the characters, the beauty and liveliness of the descriptions, and the force and truth of moral sentiments that the true poet is known. ...

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