In 1795, the movement found its richest poetic voice in Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who imagined all of “animated nature” trembling into existence as this vital force flowed through it, just as a breeze might resonate through a harp and produce music that is irreducible to its mere notes. As Coleridge wrote: “And what if all of animated nature / Be but organic Harps diversely framed / That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps / Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze / At once the Soul of each, and God of all.”12
