The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud--and hark, again ! loud as before. The inmates of my cottage, all at rest, Have left me to that solitude, which suits Abstruser musings : save that at my side My cradled infant slumbers peacefully. 'Tis calm indeed ! so calm, that it disturbs Coleridge, 'Frost at Midnight'; 'France: An Ode'; 'Fears in Solitude' (1798) Lamb, 'Witches, and Other Night Fears' (1821) Week 6 Gothic Terror: Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) Week 7 Gothic Horror: Lewis, The Monk (1795) Week 8 ESSAY COMPLETION WEEK English-language poetry and is particularly important in ancient French, Spanish and Celtic languages. Examples English poetry is rich in examples of assonance and/or consonance: That loneliness that fits the musings abstruser— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight" on a proud round cloud in high white night— E. Cummings, if a cheerful Francis Oâ Gorman â I deprecate the moral & intellectual habits of those men both in England & France, who have modestly assumed to themselves the exclusive title of Philosophers and Friends of Freedomâ , c.10 March 1798.1 Coleridge often invited his reader, silently, to wonder what might come next in a literary text. Act 2 of Osorio (1797) sees the title character demand of Ferdinand: â Poetic Designs, chapter 2; Ode Coleridge "Frost at Midnight"; Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"; Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (optional); Scansion . September 26 Poetic Designs, chapter 3; Gray "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat"; Smart "Frost at Midnight", 48-50+ 14 Cf. Coleridge. "The Nightingale", 94, 97 f 15 Coleridge. "The Nightingale", 97 Excerpt out of 15 pages Details Title Country and Landscape in S.T. Coleridge's Poem "The Nightingale" College University of Bonn (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie) Course Country and City in 19th Century Literature But that makes him a sterner test for my theory of influence than any other poet I could have chosen. I return to Coleridge's first mature poetry and to its clinamen away from Milton, the Cowperizing turn that gave Coleridge the conversation poems, particularly "Frost at Midnight." Hazlitt quotes Coleridge as having said to Introduction 13 Footnote 31 Like Coleridge's experience on Broad Stand, in which his perception of the ridiculousness of his situation is used to stage a sublime renaissance in his understanding of nature, 'Frost at Midnight' shifts from the ridiculousness of schoolboy-Coleridge's reverie to a powerful statement of future mastery, this time for his son The death of his father forced Coleridge to attend school in London, far away from the rural idylls of his youth, and he lamented the missed opportunities of his sheltered, city-bound adolescence in many poems, including "Frost at Midnight" ( 1798 ). Here, the speaker sits quietly by a fire, musing on his life, while his infant son sleeps nearby. English: Image of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Vision of Sir Launfal (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Russell Lowell}, collected by H. G. Hall and Edward Everett Hale. Published by Sampson Low, 1906. This media file is in the public domain in the United States. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight," "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison" Female Voices in the Romantic Age (at least three authors) Mary Wollstonecraft (from A Vindication of the Ri