tropic-sea

Updated: May 24, 2025

The reader is led to feel that amid the loneliness of the tropic-sea the line between the earthly and the unearthly vanishes, and the poet leaves him to discover for himself whether the spectral shapes that the mariner saw were merely the visions of the calenture, or a glimpse of the world of spirits. Coleridge is one of our most perfect metrists.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson