Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Coleridge , Samuel Taylor (1797), Letter to Joseph Cottle, early April 1797, Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Volume 1, Retrieved on 2012-02-01
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    01 FEB 2012

     To Spend 20 Years on an Epic Poem

    I should not think of devoting less than 20 years to an Epic Poem. Ten to collect materials and warm my mind with universal science. I would be a tolerable Mathematician, I would thoroughly know Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy, Botany, Metallurgy, Fossilism, Chemistry, Geology, Anatomy, Medicine—then the mind of man—then the minds of men—in all Travels, Voyages and Histories. So I would spend ten years—the next five to the composition of the poem—and the five last to ...
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    Folksonomies: research
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    Coleridge's described process sounds like scientific research, which is equally intense and epic.

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