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Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement is a poem written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1796. Like his earlier poem The Eolian Harp, it discusses Coleridge's understanding of nature and his married life, which was suffering from problems that developed after the previous poem.
The Eolian Harp is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795 and published in his 1796 poetry collection. It is one of the early conversation poems and discusses Coleridge's anticipation of a marriage with Sara Fricker along with the pleasure of conjugal love .
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ ˈ k oʊ l ə r ɪ dʒ / KOH-lə-rij; [1]) (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.
Étude Op. 25, No. 1 in A-flat major is a solo piano work composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1836, and published in 1837. The work consists entirely of rapid arpeggios and harmonic modulations based on A-flat major .
The poem was dedicated to Lamb, Fricker, and the generic friends, but Fricker's name was left out of the published edition. [1] Coleridge later explained to Robert Southey that he stayed behind because his wife "accidentally emptied a skillet of boiling milk on my foot, which confined me during the whole time of C. Lamb's stay."
[1] These fears of an invasion manifested in April 1798, and Britons began to arm themselves. In April, Coleridge traveled to his childhood home at Ottery and then went to visit William and Dorothy Wordsworth ; during this time Coleridge wrote "Fears in Solitude: Written in April 1798, During the Alarm of an Invasion". [ 2 ]
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Derozio uses a conventional apostrophe to a harp (representing poetry), mourning India's recent loss of a poetic tradition and expressing hope that he might be able to revive it. The poem is an allusion to Thomas Moore 's "Dear Harp of My Country," [ 2 ] which Derozio quotes as an epigraph (cited as "Moore to the Harp of Erin") on the title ...