On the night-images of Coleridge recorded in Anima Poetae, the thing, for us, is how they are half way (roughly) between the scientific weather-descriptions of natural history or astronomical reports of the 18th century – Halley, Philosophical Transactions, Gray, White – where always the struggle was to be objective only and to omit all personal feelings, and the soul-diary of Jefferies or the Journal of Hopkins in the 19th century. The fact of course is that the objective and subjective descriptions over both centuries divided, one line being science, the other poetry or meditation, one for
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