Poet, Philosopher and True Romantic" "‘A sound was in my ear as of a Siren’s song.’So wrote William Hazlitt, describing how seductive was the art of Coleridge’s conversation.Hazlitt admits to owing his intellectual liberation to Coleridge: ‘that my understanding found a language to express itself, I owe to Coleridge…the light of his genius shone into my soul, like the sun’s rays glittering in the puddles of the road’."