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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 .
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.
Robert Schumann praised this work in a dissertation on the Études; calling it "a poem rather than a study", he coined for it the alternate name "Aeolian Harp". [1] It is also sometimes known as "The Shepherd Boy," following an unsupported tale by Kleczyński that Chopin advised a pupil to picture a shepherd boy taking refuge in a grotto to ...
The Eolian Harp. "My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined" 1795 1796 To the Author of Poems [Joseph Cottle] published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795 "Unboastful Bard! whose verse concise yet clear" 1795 1795, September The Silver Thimble.
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." [2]
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[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 ]
This sonnet is the first poem of the volume, coming directly after Derozio's preface, and serves to assert Derozio's presence as a poet. [1] It is dated to March 1827. [ 2 ] 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 ...