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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. However, The Eolian Harp is not a love poem and instead focuses on man's ...
Jul 29, 2017 · Samuel Taylor Coleridge, drawn by George Dance, 21st March 1804, The Wordsworth Trust. Despite the opinions of Coleridge’s ‘Witnesses’, Sara herself may well have had a different view. During the 40 years of their marriage, Coleridge never made enough money to support his growing family. The relationship was, at best, an off-and-on one ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ ˈ k oʊ l ə r ɪ dʒ / KOH-lə-rij; 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.
In 1797, Wordsworth and his adored sister Dorothy lived for a little over a year as Somerset neighbours to Coleridge and his young wife, Sara Fricker. The four — sadly for the long-suffering ...
Abstract. This article examines Samuel Taylor Coleridge's marriage and family life. Coleridge first met his wife Sarah Fricker in Bristol in the summer of 1794, and their marriage proved to be an unhappy one. Coleridge married Sarah only because of social constraints, and they separated in 1808 due to their financial difficulties and Coleridge ...
There are really only two characters in this poem: the speaker, whom many take to be Coleridge himself; and his beloved, a woman named Sara. Coleridge did marry a woman called Sara Fricker (though ...
