"The poetic PSYCHE, in its process to full development, undergoes as many changes as its Greek name-sake, the butterfly."
— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Rest Fenner
Date
1817
Metaphor
"The poetic PSYCHE, in its process to full development, undergoes as many changes as its Greek name-sake, the butterfly."
Metaphor in Context
The poetic PSYCHE, in its process to full development, undergoes as many changes as its Greek name-sake, the butterfly. And it is remarkable how soon genius clears and purifies itself from the faults and errors of its earliest products; faults which, in its earliest compositions, are the more obtrusive and confluent because as heterogenous elements, which had only temporary use, they constitute the very ferment, by which themselves are carried off. Or we may compare them to some diseases, which must work on the humours, and be thrown out on the surface, in order to secure the patient from their future recurrence. [...]
(p. 78)
(p. 78)
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Citation
Text drawn from or checked against S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria. ed. James Engell and W. Jackson Bate, Bollingen Series: The Collected Works, vol. vii (Princeton UP, 1983).
See also Project Gutenberg edition <Link>.
See also Project Gutenberg edition <Link>.
Date of Entry
09/22/2005
