by Coleridge · Cluster: Poet as Prophet · Prophet · Romantic Movement (Sensibility)
Abstract
Stolberg’s ‘To the Sea’: the blind bard (Homer) stands by the sea while the giant deeds of a golden age sound around him and the Iliad and Odyssey rise singing from the waves; lyric on the poet-prophet, the sea and epic inspiration.
Connections
Topoi: Poet as Prophet, Golden Age Archetypes: Prophet Motifs: Sea, Music and Song Themes & Concepts: Immortality of Art Fame Historical References: Greek Mythology
Testo integrale / Full text
‘An das Meer.’
Der blinde Sänger stand am Meer,
Die Wogen rauschten um ihn her,
Und Riesenthaten goldner Zeit
Umrauschten ihn im Feierkleid.
Es kam zu ihm auf Schwanenschwung 5
Melodisch die Begeisterung,
Und Iliad und Odyssee
Entsteigen mit Gesang der See.
The German original is printed in the Notes to P. W., 1893, p. 639.
See, too, Prefatory Memoir to the Tauchnitz edition of Coleridge’s
Poems, by P. Freiligrath (1852).