by Coleridge · Cluster: Satire of Society · Epigram · Satire
Abstract
A satirical dialogue epigram joking that the poor buy half-coats (spencers) because they cannot afford whole ones, glancing at poverty.
Connections
Motifs: Clothing and Costume Themes & Concepts: Poverty, Satire of Society Forms & Genres: Epigram, Satire
Testo integrale / Full text
Said William to Edmund I can’t guess the reason
Why Spencers abound in this bleak wintry season.
Quoth Edmund to William, I perceive you’re no Solon —
Men may purchase a half-coat when they cannot a whole-one.
BRISTOLIENSIS.
March 21, 1796. First published in The Watchman, No. IV. March 25,
1796. First collected Poems, 1907.