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In his biography Coleridge : Early Visions Richard Holmes tells us, ' Frost at Midnight is one of the most intimately structured of all the Conversation Poems, performing a characteristic ‘outward and return’ movement through time and space. ... This CURVE of memory and prophesy gives the poem a rich emotional resonance ... '
The editors liked this idea of memory and prophesy curves through time and space and noted other examples by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In his Notebook he writes— 'The mad water rushes thro' its sinuous Bed ... with such rapid CURVES, as if it turned corners ... with foreknowledge ... '
And again— 'Starlings in vast flights— now a circular area inclined in an ARC, ...
an ELLIPSE, ... an image of shifting energy and imagination, a protean form or force-
For the idea of WordCurves, STC and RH, we salute you!