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The echoes of Darwin in Coleridge’s poems were subconscious memories rather than plagiarism, and the same applies with Coleridge’s prose. But the question of Coleridge’s plagiarism is a nettle I cannot ignore, because it is so close to my path.
Mr Coleridge has ‘a mind reflecting ages past’; his voice is like the echo of the congregated roar of the ‘dark rearward and abyss’ of thought.
W. Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age
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King-Hele, D. (1986). Coleridge in Prose. In: Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18098-1_6
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