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The first version of the first part of Christabel was written in 1797. However there could have been modifications to the text of part I in 1800–01, when part II was being written. In 1798–99 Coleridge had spent ten months in Germany, re-thinking his views on philosophy, psychology and physiology. While he was away and shortly after he returned there were critical developments in his personal life which opened windows to the puzzles of cognition and identity and raised further insistent questions about the nature of life. Amongst many other things, this changed the issues which demanded attention in the poem.
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Ward, D. (2013). Christabel. In: Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362629_8
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