What are some feminist readings of the following poems by Coleridge:
The Rime of the Ancient mariner, Kubla Khan, This lime tree bower my
prison, The aeolian harp, Frost at Midnight?

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Request for Question Clarification by actualwolf-ga on 12 Aug 2002 06:55 PDT

Are you looking for an actual original analysis of these works in the
answer, or would links to/information about such materials suffice?

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Clarification of Question by 1962-ga on 15 Aug 2002 03:33 PDT

yes, i want actual feminist or post-modern, post-structualist freudian
etc readings of his conversation poems or kubla khan or the ancient
mariner.

I believe an essay entitled "Mary Robinson and the Abyssinian Maid:
Coleridge's Muses and Feminist Criticism" should meet your needs.

An excerpt, referring to "Kubla Khan":

"Shaped by a masculine sexuality to which women become victims, the
Khan's dome is a place in which women's suffering and desire are heard
as one in the sound of a 'savage' wail. But if the dome is
characterised by conquest and violence, it is threatened by it too,
for it is vulnerable to destruction, to 'ancestral voices prophesying
war' ...it is not clear whether the poet can ever build it, for he
doubts his own creative power. He ends not with a successful
construction, but with a vision of the awe he would inspire, the
sublimity he would acquire, could he envision the dome in words. In a
recent article Jane Moore has construed this outcome as a failure by
the poet to attain the potency he desires. Reading the poet at the
poem's end as being analogous to the Khan, she sees him as trying, but
failing, to become a Khan himself, to become a sublime creator whose
masculinity is produced through the conquest of the feminine."

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/kublarobinson.html 

The best-known feminist criticism of "Kubla Khan" is probably Jane
Moore's "Plagiarism with a Difference: Subjectivity in Kubla Khan."
Unfortunately I cannot find a copy of this on the Web. It is available
in a textbook, "Beyond Romanticism : New Approaches to Texts and
Contexts" (ISBN: 0415052017.)

http://www.allbookstores.com/book/0415052017 

Google search strategy:

"coleridge" + "feminist criticism"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=coleridge+%22feminist+criticism

I hope this will meet your needs. If any part of my answer is unclear,
please feel free to ask for clarification.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

I would have liked more on coleridges other poetry, however it was a
very good start. Thanks!

Since this question is broad in scope, I neither have the will nor the
time to answer it.  However, I can point out a source that you or some
other researchers can look up:
Carlson, Julie.  "Impositions of Form: Romantic Antitheatricalism and
the Case Against Particular Women."  ELH. Vol 60, No. 1 (Spring,
1993). pp. 149-179.

It is not really. I am looking for a feminist reading of coleridge's
poetry so that my senior students can test their own readings against
it. Just 1 feminist interpretation will do!

Can't find anything quite right online.  One article discusses some
feminist commentary on "Kubla Khan" and the footnotes refer you on to
other possibly useful material.It's at both these addresses:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/kublarobinson.html

and:

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/kublarobinson.html