A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

From the dream of universal social therapy and regeneration which Wordsworth and Coleridge had at first accepted as a necessary consequence of submission of the heart to the pure messages of the external world, Coleridge awakened with his 'Dejection: An Ode' in 1802.
“Tennyson and Picturesque Poetry” (1955), in Essays in Criticism, Vol 1, No 3, July (1951), p 276, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 276
Year: 1955
Chapter: Coleridge
Compiled by William Kuhns
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