by Coleridge · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
Headnote and opening of Coleridge’s series of sonnets addressed to eminent contemporaries for the Morning Chronicle; occasional sonnet sequence on public figures.
Connections
Themes & Concepts: Artist and Society, Nationalism and Patriotism, Satire of Society Forms & Genres: Poem Sequence, Sonnet
Testo integrale / Full text
CONTRIBUTED TO THE ‘MORNING CHRONICLE’ IN DECEMBER 1794 AND JANUARY 1795
[The Sonnets were introduced by the following letter: —
‘MR. EDITOR — If, Sir, the following Poems will not disgrace
your poetical department, I will transmit you a series of
Sonnets (as it is the fashion to call them) addressed like
these to eminent Contemporaries.
‘JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.’ S. T. C.]
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