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‘The Gleam of Those Words’

Chapter 6 traces Shelley’s intertextual relationship with Coleridge. It points to the historical record of letters, notes, and journals in which each poet wrote his opinion of the other. For Coleridge’s part, he regretted not meeting Shelley when he had the chance, and thought he could have mentored the younger poet, whom he identifies as a man of great poetic power, in need of guidance, particularly with respect to his misguided atheism. The chapter explores the ways in which Shelley both learns from and turns away from Coleridge. It traces Shelley’s echoes of Coleridge and notes that the younger poet often acknowledges, through his poetry, shared ground with his ideological opponent. In particular, the two poets share a remarkable capacity for duality. The notion of hope and its relationship to poetic power is a recurring theme in Shelley’s poetry. Coleridge’s consideration of hope, and his understanding of how difficult it is to sustain hope, draws sympathy from Shelley and provides much ground for the younger poet’s responsiveness to Coleridge’s work. But, for Shelley, great differences abide between their approaches to poetry, thought, and the imagination. Some of Shelley’s most insightful responses to Coleridge lie in his ability to reconsider Coleridge’s expressions of religious experience as well as his account of the power of language.