Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost at Midnight

William Christie

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost at Midnight

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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,

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

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