samuel taylor coleridge is the most symbolic of all romantic poets. through his creative imagination, coleridge creates symbols that disguise the philosophical ideas, and something fresh and unsullied out of the chaos of different images and associations. it is simply imagination that enables the romantic poet to present spiritually perceived things, and resolves his conflict by returning to “d...

(I never could rememoer which)," after leaving Ushaw College, Durham, in July, 1877, became a medical student at Owen's College, Manchester. We do not know much more of his student days than of those of Keats, but whereas Keats qualified, Thompson never sat; at least, he never passed his medical examinations. Under the pressure of his family, he spent six years at this uncongenial task. He was ...