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The Eolian Harp

The Eolian Harp (1796), Inferred

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843) · 1796

InferredA later pencil annotation in the notebook reads: 'Coleridge seems to be fully impressed with the splendid effects of the universal analogy. But he is too frequently inadequate to the perfect expression of his beautiful conceptions.' Also annotated: 'A beautiful description of reverie.' The passage is from Coleridge's 'The Eolian Harp' (1796), published in Poems on Various Subjects (1796) and Sibylline Leaves (1817).

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Documented 1825

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Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Reading Notebook 1825–1827

p. 36

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Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred A later pencil annotation in the notebook reads: 'Coleridge seems to be fully impressed with the splendid effects of the universal analogy. But he is too frequently inadequate to the perfect expression of his beautiful conceptions.' Also annotated: 'A beautiful description of reverie.' The passage is from Coleridge's 'The Eolian Harp' (1796), published in Poems on Various Subjects (1796) and Sibylline Leaves (1817).