WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

“The Pang More Sharp than All. An Allegory”

"The Pang More Sharp than All. An Allegory" (composed c. 1825–26; first published in Poetical Works

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1835The Pang more sharp than allAttested
“a piece new to me entitled "The Pang more sharp than all"—by which I was reminded of some lines of yours”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feb 1835
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IV. Transcendentalist

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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“above all a piece new to me entitled "The Pang more sharp than all"—by which I was reminded of some lines of yours which I saw lately not where I should have seen them first! to wit in print”

Fuller, Margaret. "To James F. Clarke, 1 February 1835." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 219–222. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Hudspeth identified the article quotes this late Coleridge allegory, first published posthumously in 1834.