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‘I deem these legends terrible’ (PW, 1, 139, 90). Coleridge asserts the power of terror to achieve something not unlike Schiller’s aesthetic phase of human development, where Sami myth ‘unsensualizes the dark mind’:
peopling air By obscure fears of Beings invisible, Emancipates it from the grosser thrall Of the present impulse, teaching Self-controul, Till Superstition with unconscious hand Seat Reason on her throne.
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Ward, D. (2013). The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere. In: Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362629_6
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