Shakespeare's Judgment equal to his Genius
The essay is a tribute to Shakespeare who possesses all the qualities and conditions of a true poet. Coleridge tries to unveil some misconceptions popular about Shakespeare by formulating some romantic conceptions. He is a genius who well expressed himself in his dramas and poems. The ideas that he was immoral are totally groundless. The organic form he exposes is true to his genius for it is innate that shapes, as it develops, itself from within, and the fullness of its devolvement is one and the same with the perfection of its outward form. Shakespeare himself is nature methodized.
To be agreeable, objects should-
a) Correspond to our nature.
b) Pleasing to our senses.
c) Satisfying our habit.
Beautiful is agreeable but not all agreeable is beautiful.
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