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...conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs 25 Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light,...of his song And of his fame forgetful ! so his fame 30 Should share in Nature's immortality, A venerable thing ! and so his song Should make all Nature...

...Coleridge's image of the poet's ideal surrender to nature When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell By sun or moonlight,...influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements 265 Surrendering his whole spirit, of his song And of his fame forgetful! so his fame Should share...

...capability: Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light,...whole spirit, of his song And of his fame forgetful! (24-30) The poem ends with Coleridge's "father's tale," wherein he himself as narrator and partial...

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...conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs 25 Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light,...of his song And of his fame forgetful! so his fame 30 Should share in Nature's immortality, A venerable thing! and so his song Should make all Nature...

...conceit;3 Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight,...of his song And of his fame forgetful! so his fame 30 Should share in Nature's immortality, A venerable thing! and so his song Should make all Nature...

...process in which the poet would, as Coleridge writes in 'The Nightingale,' have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light,...and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit. (ll. 2 5-9) Loving nature, or knowing it, has as a preliminary requirement the realization that there...