Note 358 — Chapter I · WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE: THEIR COMPANIONS AND ADVERSARIES.
Reading edition
The extraordinary critical genius of Coleridge can hardly be better shown than by his gloss here on the Petronian enigma, Præcipitandus est liber spiritus, to which we have referred so often. The poet—the image is not Coleridge’s, but I think it very fairly illustrates his view—rides the reader’s own genius, and both together attain the goal.