Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 12 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 77284 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 81 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 God 9 man 8 Sir 7 like 7 Mr. 7 Greek 6 footnote 6 St. 6 Lord 6 Coleridge 5 nature 5 mind 5 life 5 great 5 Wordsworth 5 England 4 time 4 good 4 Milton 4 King 4 John 4 Christianity 4 Christ 3 word 3 truth 3 thing 3 sense 3 scripture 3 power 3 friend 3 christian 3 Sun 3 Southey 3 Shakspeare 3 Paul 3 Moon 3 Mariner 3 Jews 3 Jesus 3 France 3 Fletcher 3 English 3 Dr. 3 Church 2 work 2 thought 2 sidenote 2 love 2 french 2 form Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2907 man 1374 word 1255 time 1213 thing 1116 sense 1115 mind 1052 p. 976 nature 972 life 932 work 925 power 905 truth 861 part 768 day 721 thought 718 eye 717 reason 702 heart 676 feeling 666 character 653 love 630 poem 619 letter 606 spirit 592 friend 586 faith 581 year 570 soul 566 poet 563 name 562 footnote 561 language 558 nothing 545 object 540 fact 533 form 529 light 518 state 518 book 503 world 490 place 484 law 480 way 468 idea 460 subject 458 person 458 hand 450 self 450 line 440 body Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 4946 _ 1445 God 961 Coleridge 809 Mr. 737 c. 731 Christ 598 Greek 564 Church 445 Shakspeare 433 St. 386 Lord 373 Sir 364 thou 361 Wordsworth 299 Taylor 298 John 261 S. 261 C. 250 England 249 Father 245 T. 227 Milton 223 Paul 222 Son 209 English 203 heaven 194 Luther 192 et 183 Charles 178 s. 175 Christian 175 B. 170 Spirit 170 Christianity 167 Dr. 162 I. 161 Southey 161 Gospel 149 hath 144 Footnote 143 Holy 140 King 139 Jesus 139 Cottle 137 London 136 COLERIDGE 136 Act 133 May 129 James 128 LETTER Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 10366 i 9032 it 5495 he 2687 you 2681 they 2521 we 2340 me 1886 him 1625 them 924 himself 918 she 852 us 774 itself 455 themselves 452 myself 280 her 198 thee 150 ib 107 ourselves 75 yourself 56 herself 53 one 39 mine 31 yours 27 thyself 20 theirs 19 his 18 iv 11 ours 8 ''em 6 thy 6 hers 5 ye 4 o 3 ''s 2 yourselves 2 southey 2 o''er 2 ay 1 รก 1 your'';--at 1 y 1 writing;--or 1 words!--fearful 1 whence 1 w----and 1 us;--for 1 tuo 1 trodden 1 treateth Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 31890 be 9233 have 2907 do 1710 make 1679 say 1511 see 1199 know 1098 give 1028 think 971 take 862 find 842 come 839 write 703 go 697 seem 647 believe 621 call 594 feel 562 become 541 read 513 hear 512 mean 509 follow 462 tell 451 leave 433 appear 430 look 430 live 428 speak 419 let 367 understand 361 love 361 bring 357 suppose 353 pass 339 receive 338 use 323 remain 315 bear 313 stand 310 consider 298 produce 290 express 285 exist 283 lie 274 die 263 hold 263 act 262 prove 260 send Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7237 not 2843 so 2192 more 1737 only 1625 other 1418 great 1396 most 1394 very 1390 own 1322 first 1305 then 1265 same 1222 even 1219 now 1088 good 1061 as 1056 such 1007 well 884 yet 880 too 819 never 810 many 798 much 777 still 733 up 682 true 678 far 671 indeed 662 little 627 therefore 595 ever 592 here 581 long 580 old 537 thus 535 common 528 high 527 mere 523 less 510 whole 505 rather 493 that 484 is 480 out 464 last 450 once 441 moral 439 least 437 human 428 almost Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 401 least 321 good 221 most 120 high 101 great 64 bad 49 early 33 fine 28 strong 25 low 23 late 21 pure 20 noble 18 fair 17 large 17 deep 15 near 14 dear 13 eld 13 Most 12 manif 11 speech:-- 11 small 11 dr 10 happy 10 bright 9 simple 9 lovely 9 lively 9 intense 8 l 8 grand 8 clear 7 young 7 wise 7 true 7 slight 7 mean 7 full 7 divine 6 wild 6 wide 6 sure 6 sublime 6 strange 6 poor 6 old 6 fit 6 dull 6 close Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1175 most 48 well 38 least 1 vision";--the 1 tempest 1 still,--most 1 pourest 1 lord;-- 1 individual;--the 1 healest 1 exprest 1 drest 1 -*the Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 promo.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://promo.net/pg Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 _ is _ 7 _ are _ 6 _ feeling _ 6 men are not 5 reason is not 4 _ know _ 4 day was well 4 eye is bright 4 god is not 4 man was ever 4 words are not 3 _ are not 3 _ do _ 3 _ make _ 3 _ means _ 3 _ think _ 3 christ is not 3 coleridge did not 3 coleridge was now 3 god was not 3 man are not 3 man does not 3 man is not 3 mind is not 3 spirit is not 3 things did crawl 3 things lived on 3 thought is not 3 truth is not 2 _ be _ 2 _ believe _ 2 _ does _ 2 _ feel _ 2 _ felt _ 2 _ knowing _ 2 _ make believe 2 _ mean _ 2 _ read _ 2 _ seems _ 2 _ thinking _ 2 _ was _ 2 character is not 2 christ had never 2 christ have mercy 2 christ was not 2 coleridge was still 2 eye is large 2 eye was plain 2 eyes made up 2 eyes were weak Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 words have no meaning 1 * hear no murmuring 1 * is not march 1 _ has no right 1 _ has no subjectivity 1 _ have no more 1 _ makes no conscience 1 c. are not proper 1 character is not so 1 character is not very 1 christ had no church 1 christ is not only 1 christ was not then 1 coleridge had no mind 1 coleridge had no permanent 1 coleridge was not strong 1 day were not theirs 1 feeling is not objectless 1 god is not as 1 god was not ignorant 1 god was not necessary 1 heart were no quality 1 life had not yet 1 life is not always 1 love has no struggles 1 man are not yet 1 man be not below 1 man had no sooner 1 men are not accustomed 1 men are not beasts 1 men are not surprised 1 men are not wholly 1 mind gives no conscious 1 mind had no progression 1 mind has no predilection 1 mind is not capable 1 mind was no doubt 1 mind was not then 1 nature does not apparently 1 nature has no legitimate 1 nature has no means 1 nature is not possible 1 poem is not necessarily 1 poems are no less 1 poems are not quite 1 power is no derivative 1 power is not knowledge 1 power is not properly 1 reason does not indeed 1 reason has no concern Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 139941 6081 111101 10801 108351 8489 104473 8956 98047 8210 93278 8533 90861 8488 74076 41705 47469 8208 33890 11101 21975 9622 3945 151 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 92.0 8208 85.0 11101 79.0 8210 75.0 8489 74.0 8488 74.0 41705 73.0 10801 73.0 8956 72.0 8533 65.0 6081 105.0 151 100.0 9622 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10801 human understanding and moral sense; instead of leaving every man a That the Bible is the word of God (said Luther) the same I prove as truth of the Holy Gospel may stand; for God regardeth not men''s That God''s word, and the Christian Church, is preserved against the The Church has power from God''s word to order all matters of order so as true God, because the Father has the Son and the Holy Spirit in Unity, three Persons and one God. Now Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, And though Christ be the eternal Son of God, and the natural Lord and true, namely, that I am a mere man, and yet call myself the Son of God, light from, the meaning of the word Faith;--or the reason of Christ''s of God and his Word, the latter as the Son of Man, in which the divine 11101 COLERIDGE''S ANCIENT MARINER AND SELECT POEMS Coleridge felt in this lean and thoughtful young man a strength of mind, As this poem grew under Coleridge''s "shaping-spirit of Coleridge lived for thirty-six years after he left Stowey for Germany in But in Coleridge''s poem all nature Wordsworth related in after years that the suggestion for the poem came from a dream of a phantom ship told to Coleridge by a friend, and that it; in Coleridge the poet died half a lifetime before the man, and left Coleridge as an introduction to the ballad of "The Dark Ladie," which [Sidenote: The Mariner tells how the ship sailed southward with a good [Sidenote: The land of ice, and of fearful sounds where no living thing [Sidenote: Till a great sea-bird, called the Albatross, came through the [Sidenote: But Life-in-Death begins her work on the ancient Mariner.] Coleridge''s mind before "The Ancient Mariner" was thought of. 151 "By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, Nor dim nor red, like God''s own head, With far-heard whisper, o''er the sea. "I fear thee and thy glittering eye, I looked upon the rotting sea, Lay like a load on my weary eye, Is a curse in a dead man''s eye! The moving Moon went up the sky, But where the ship''s huge shadow lay, Like lead into the sea. And the sails did sigh like sedge; Like waters shot from some high crag, The loud wind never reached the ship, Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, The boat came closer to the ship, The boat came close beneath the ship, The ship went down like lead. Like one that hath been seven days drowned The Mariner, whose eye is bright, He went like one that hath been stunned, 41705 love-kindling effect of rural nature--the bad passions of human trick); but a man''s pleasures--children, books, friends, nature, the of nature were working in me, like a tender thought in a man who is [Sidenote: THE CREATIVE POWER OF WORDS AND IMAGES] [Sidenote: FORM AND FEELING] [Sidenote: HIS CONVERSATION, A NIMIETY OF IDEAS, NOT OF WORDS] thought and feeling honourable to human nature) would not have been more [Sidenote: ANTICIPATIONS IN NATURE AND IN THOUGHT Saturday night, April the right, the virtuous feeling, and consequent action when a man having [Sidenote: THOUGHT AND THINGS] then I said, so are the happy man''s thoughts and things, [or in the in common life, feel a man my inferior except by after-reflection. [Sidenote: WORDS AND THINGS] The man of genius places things in a new light. [Sidenote: THE POWER OF WORDS] [Sidenote: THE MIND''S EYE] [Sidenote: GREAT AND LITTLE MINDS] Nature for likeness, men for difference, 25 6081 concerning the true nature of poetic diction; and at the same time to The great works of past ages seem to a young man things of fancy, and the love of nature, and the sense of beauty in forms and feeling, an involuntary sense of fear from which nature has no means of the senses; the mind is affected by thoughts, rather than by things; instances drawn from the operation of natural objects on the mind. ideas,--actually existed, and in what consist their nature and power. the writings of these men, and expressed, as was natural, in the words By persuasa prudentia, Grynaeus means selfcomplacent common sense as opposed to science and philosophic reason. poem of your own in the FRIEND, and applied to a work of Mr. Wordsworth''s though with a few of the words altered: meaning to the mere English reader, cannot possibly act on the mind with 8208 "the leading point about Coleridge''s work is its human love." We may England," said Coleridge, with truth, "whose thoughts, images, words, and the wind, like a seagull poised between sky and sea, and turning on its bird; Blake, like a child or an angel; but Coleridge certainly writes and in a poem like "Love," which has suffered as much indiscriminate praise I fear thee and thy glittering eye, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, That gentle bird, whom thou dost love, Till Love and Joy look round, and call the Earth their own." Be loved like Nature! Nature''s sweet voices, always full of love On thy steep banks, no loves hast thou, wild stream! O Fair is Love''s first hope to gentle mind! Some _living_ Love before my eyes there stood Shedd''st thou, like dew, on my heart, till the joy and the heavenly sadness But that is lovely--looks like human Time,-- 8210 part, to make Coleridge tell his own life by inserting letters in the writing; and all the non-copyright letters of Coleridge available from Coleridge''s greatest triumphs in letter-writing were gained in the field Lamb to Coleridge, most of which are in answer to letters received. Coming from Mr. Coleridge--the chief living authority on the life, letters, and The following letter written at this time by Coleridge to Mr. Charles following beautiful letter by Coleridge was written on the occasion of Of the next letter Cottle says:--"A second edition of Mr. Coleridge''s Meantime Coleridge had written to Charles Lloyd''s father three letters With the letter of Nov. 5, [1] the biographical sketch left by Mr. Coleridge''s late Editor comes to an end, and at the present time I can "The following letter also on this subject, was received from Mr. Coleridge. The last four letters were written from Stowey, whither Coleridge had 8488 form, the fall of a man, whose great bad actions have cast a disastrous The good great man?--three treasures, love and light, the day; but commensurate with the good sense, taste, and feeling, to Men of mere common sense have no theory or means of The man who reads a work meant for immediate effect on one age with the nature, like the leaves of a book, before the eyes of his creature, humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into In this sense nature itself is to a religious observer the art of God; whom we love; for so only can he hope to produce any work truly natural accomplish the will and command of my God. We ought not to relieve a poor man merely because our own feelings impel the beautiful in nature has been appropriated to the works of man, just 8489 fruit to the glory of God and the spiritualization of Man. His mere reading was immense, and the quality and direction of much of it company with a man, who listened to me and said nothing for a long time; see the Son of man (or me) sitting on the right hand of power, and coming the church praises God, like a Christian, with words which are natural and of this great divine of the English church should be so little known as that he can govern a great nation by word of command, in the same way in He thinks aloud; every thing in his mind, good, bad, things that concern him as a _man_, the words that he reads are spirit and HUMOUR AND GENIUS.--GREAT POETS GOOD MEN.--DICTION OF THE OLD AND NEW Mr. Coleridge called Shakspeare "_the myriad-minded man_," [Greek: au_az 8533 Britton, Esq. SHAKSPEARE, WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER ON POETRY, THE DRAMA, AND THE STAGE least obvious likeness presented by thoughts, words, or objects,--these in other words:--Is Shakspeare a great dramatic poet on account only of chosen poet, of our own Shakspeare,--himself a nature humanized, a well worth remarking that Shakspeare''s characters, like those in real character;--passion in Shakspeare is that by which the individual is Heaven have mercy on poor Shakspeare, and also on Mr. Warburton''s mind''s eye! The myriad-minded man, our, and all men''s, Shakspeare, has in this piece way in which Shakspeare lives up to the very end of this play, read the Bolingbroke''s character, in general, is an instance how Shakspeare makes 4. In Lear old age is itself a character,--its natural Shakspeare seems to mean all Hamlet''s character to be sneers at Shakspeare, is, that his plays were present to men''s minds 8956 God in which man was made; and he could as little understand how faith, Christian duty of faith in God through Christ is to be reconciled with son of God, that is the only true life-giving light of men. eternal God. That reason could have discovered these divine truths is one thing; that short, to attribute merit to any agent but God in Christ, our faith as Christ''s person in the diversity of the natures of God and man; but if Christ were God and man in the unity of the same person, he chose Is this a possible act to any man understanding by the word God what we termed the person of Christ; nor is it true to say that the Son of God support of the fact of the ascension of Christ, or at least of St. Paul''s (and of course of the first generation of Christians'') belief of 9622 Ne dim ne red, like God''s own head, "I fear thee and thy glittering eye Is the curse in a dead man''s eye! I look''d far-forth, but little saw I pray''d and turn''d my head away Like one that hath been seven days drown''d Old men, and babes, and loving friends, ''Tis more like heaven to come than what _has_ been. A grey-haired man--he loved this little boy, --But some night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierc''d Nature''s sweet voices always full of love Hath heard a pause of silence: till the Moon My heart is touched to think that men like these, At which the poor old man so long "My little boy, which like you more," Oft-times I thought to run away; Thou art thy mother''s only joy; Long Susan lay deep lost in thought, like a little child. Wherever nature led; more like a man