Fears in Solitude, Written in 1798, During the Alarm of an Invasion. to Which Are Added, France, an Ode; And Frost at Midnight. by S.T. Coleridge.

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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British Library

T001022

With a half-title.

printed for J. Johnson, 1798. [4],23, [1]p.; 4

34 pages, Paperback

Published May 29, 2010

About the author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.

Reviews

[Andy Hickman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fears in Solitude
Anti-military poem!
Lines 22-24,44; 103-107; 198-210. Wow!
.. and ..
(Stanza Four)
“Merchant and lawyer, senator and priest,
The rich, the poor, the old man and the young ;
All, all make up one scheme of perjury,
That faith doth reel ; the very name of God..”

France: An Ode
Opens with: “Ye Clouds! That far above me float and pause …”

Frost at Midnight
Opens with:
“The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry
..”
Inaudible as dreams! The thin blue flame! (line 13)
With his wife at his side (lines 44-49)

[Shawn Enright · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another example of the biting power that the poet-prophet has to demand justice and enact national change. Amos 5 is, to my mind, the subtext of all these poems.

[abby murrill · Rating 4 out of 5]

ROMANTICISM.