1Kathleen Wheler (Kubla Khan)
I A P E R T C A I O I A, K K I T P
If a poem aver reflected the concerns and interests of it's age, Kubla Khan is that poem
2Richard Holmes
L A O R, C W I I E S E S O M I F
Like all other Romantics, Coleridge was interested in exploring such extreme states of mind and feeling
3George Whalley (TROTAM)
I T P E O H M R, H I C A R S T S A T R O T D
In the passionate eloquence of his morbid remorse, he is constantly and relentlessly seeking the sin at the root of the desolation
4Richard Gravil (Christabel)
C D T G B O T G A I C O T C D A M O W B P
Christabel deconstructs the gender bias of the Gothic and is centred on the cruel domination and marginalisation of women by patriarchy
5Jerome McGann (TROTAM)
T M L A S L
The Mariner learned a sharp lesson
6Robert Penn Warren (TROTAM)
A A P O C H
Viwes TROTAM as "an autobiographical portrait of Coleridge himself," compares the mariner's lonliness to his own
7Psychological Approach (TROTAM)
Marine's tale seen as an exploration of extreme states of mind and feeling (guilt and alienation)
8Early reception (TROTAM)
baffled by the supernatural elements
9Humphrey House (Christabel)
T E I F A F U
P M T E H Y R T
The ending is fragmentary and finally unsatisfying
Poem manages to escape history yet retains tradition
10Charles Tomlinson (Christabel)
C E O N F, Y F O, T P
Combined expression of nostalgia for, yet fear of, the past
11Humphrey House (Kubla Khan)
K K I P A T A O P C
Kubla Khan is primarily about the art of poetic creatoin
12Psychological / dream state (Kubla Khan)
R O A D-I, S S, W T "P-D" S T U I
Representation of a drug-induced, subconscious state, with the "pleasure-dome" symbolising the untamed imagination
13William Hazlitt (Christabel)
T I S D A T B O H S
There is something disgusting at the bottom of his subject
14Harold Bloom (Kubla Khan)
K H P A C C M
Kubla has power and can comman magnificence