“The predominant emotion was disgust and self-hate mixed with an urgent desire for expiation.”

“The Fast of Atonement was instituted in expiation of a mortal sin and observed as a day of penance and mourning.”

“Coleridge created his Xanadu by locating his poems in the true, at many levels, and working towards a kind of exorcism and expiation.”

“He accepts the idea that he is to be the expiator for the damage done by mercantile capitalism.”