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"Dejection: An Ode" is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1802 and was published the same year in The Morning Post, a London daily newspaper.The poem in its original form was written to Sara Hutchinson, a woman who was not his wife, and discusses his feelings of love for her.
20th-century literary critics often categorise eight of Coleridge's poems (The Eolian Harp, Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement, This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, Frost at Midnight, Fears in Solitude, The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, Dejection: An Ode, To William Wordsworth) as a group, usually as his "conversation poems".
They are also considered pre-Romanticists, ushering in the Romantic literary movement [5] by their reflection on emotional states. This emotional reflection is seen in Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" and Keats' "Ode on Melancholy". The early works of Southey, Byron and Shelley also show the influence of the Graveyard School.
An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon. "As late, in wreaths, gay flowers I bound," 1792 1893 To Disappointment. "Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway," 1792 1895 A Fragment found in a Lecture-room. "Where deep in mud Cam rolls his slumbrous stream," 1792 1895 Ode. ('Ye Gales,' &c.) "Ye Gales, that of the Lark's repose" 1792 1796, Mach 25
George Saintsbury, in his A Short History of English Literature (1898), declared the importance and greatness of the ode: "Perhaps twice only, in Tintern Abbey and in the Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, is the full, the perfect Wordsworth, with his half-pantheistic worship of nature, informed and chastened by an intense sense of human ...
There is also a connection with Mariana's condition and the condition within Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode. However, the narrator at the end of Dejection is able to be roused into movement whereas Mariana never reaches that point. Furthermore, "Mariana" is unlike the Romantic poems because the character is not one with nature or able to achieve ...
The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes.Its working title was 'Autobiographia Literaria'. The formative influences on the work were William Wordsworth's theory of poetry, the Kantian view of imagination as a shaping power (for which Coleridge later coined the neologism "esemplastic"), various post-Kantian writers ...
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