"You will take especial note of the marvellous independence and true imaginative absence of all particular space or time in the "Faery Queene." It is in the domains neither of history or geography; it is ignorant of all artificial boundary, all material obstacles; it is truly in land of Faery, that is, of mental space. The poet has placed you in a dream, a charmed sleep, and you neither wish, nor have the power, to inquire where you are, or how you got there."
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Course of Lectures, III (3 February 1818), as reported in The Critical Perspective, ed. Harold Bloom, Vol. II (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986), p. 633; first published in Lectures and Notes on Shakspere [sic] and Other English Poets, ed. T. Ashe (London: Bell, 1883), p. 514
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