| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Literary Encyclopedia |
| Editors | Robert Clark |
| Place of Publication | http://www.litencyc.com/index.php |
| Publisher | Literary Dictionary Company Ltd |
| Pages | 1pp |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Print) | 1747678X |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Abstract
It was to his poem The Nightingale that Coleridge gave the subtitle A Conversation Poem that would eventually be adopted for a whole genre. As well as meaning an interchange of thoughts and words; familiar discourse and talk, conversation means (quoting the OED) the act of living or having ones being in or among, the action of consorting with others; living together; commerce, society, intimacy. Coleridge had found all of these things at Nether Stowey in Somerset in July 1797 when he gathered around him a set of intimate friends, new and old. There was Sara Coleridge, his wife, and their baby, Hartley Coleridge, born in September of the previous year. There was Tom Poole,