by Coleridge · Cluster: Poet as Prophet · Prophet · Romantic Movement (Sensibility)
Abstract
Hexameter address to Wordsworth, hymning his song as a divine, immortal word, love the spirit of life and music the life of the spirit. The poet as prophet.
Connections
Topoi: Poet as Prophet, Immortality Through Verse Archetypes: Prophet Motifs: Music and Song Themes & Concepts: Immortality of Art Fame, Artist and Society
Testo integrale / Full text
TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH This be the meed, that thy song creates a thousand-fold echo! Sweet as the warble of woods, that awakes at the gale of the morning! List! the Hearts of the Pure, like caves in the ancient mountains Deep, deep in the Bosom, and from the Bosom resound it, Each with a different tone, complete or in musical fragments — 5 All have welcomed thy Voice, and receive and retain and prolong it! This is the word of the Lord! it is spoken, and Beings Eternal Live and are borne as an Infant; the Eternal begets the Immortal: Love is the Spirit of Life, and Music the Life of the Spirit! ? 1805.