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by William A. Ulmer N a 1796 notebook entry, Samuel TaylorColeridge en visioned writ- ing “The Origin of Evil, an Epic Poem” and at some point enthusi- I astically discussed the project with CharlesLamb , who reminded him in 1797 “thatwh en in town you were talkingof the Origin of Evil as a most prolific subject for a Long Poem.” George Whalleyf amously speculatedtha tColeridge never wrote this poem “because as time went on he came to realizetha th e had alreadyembodied his epic theme in The Ancient Mariner,” and Peter Kitson has suggested similarly that “perhaps this projectb ecame ‘Religious Musings.’” My alternate su g- gestion is thatC hristabel embodies Coleridge’s long-consideredpoem on the origin of evil. My relatedsu ggestion is thatth e text’s rumina- Coleridge’sen tryis number 161 f21[c] from vol.1 of The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Cole- ridge, ed. Kathleen Coburn, M. Christensen, and A. J. Harding, 5 vols. (Princeton: Prince - ton UniversityPress , 1957–2002), hereaftera bbreviated CN; for Lamb’s reminiscence, see The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb, ed. Edwin W. Marrs,Jr., 3 vols. (Ithaca:Cor - nellU
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jul 30, 2007
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