Question: “How does any writer on the course treat the figure of the social outcast or outsider?” For the purposes of this assignment I will be examining two of Coleridge’s most notable poetic works; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan”. From “The Rime” I will be examining the poets treatment of the “Mariner” himself and from “Kubla Khan“ both “Kubla Khan” and the unnamed ‘poetic presence’ that is makes its self …showed first 75 words of 1976 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1976 total…argue (considering Bostetter’s point) that this is an inaccurate suggestion then I would direct them to Whalley’s original article and examine the evidence on Coleridge’s character presented there. Indeed, the moderist poet TS Elliot is reported (by John Beer) to have said: “… for a few years Coleridge had been visited by the Muse ( I know of no poet to whom this hackneyed metaphor is better applicable) and thenceforth was a haunted man.”