 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 2002 - 260 pages
...had better far have stretched his limbs 25 Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting...of his song And of his fame forgetful! so his fame 30 Should share in Nature's immortality, A venerable thing! and so his song Should make all Nature... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 2002 - 260 pages
...Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up...rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs 25 Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit;3 Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had...limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit,... | |
 | Noah Heringman - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 340 pages
...and more "romande," by comparison to the poet in Coleridge's "The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem," "to the influxes, / of shapes and sounds and shifting elements / surrendering his whole spirit" (27-29). To perceive the nightingale stripped of its literary connotations, such as "melancholy" and... | |
 | Onno Oerlemans - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 268 pages
...him to understand an ideal process in which the poet would, as Coleridge writes in 'The Nightingale,' have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit.... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
..."He, too, knew how to build the lofty rhyme," wrote Milton of Edward King. Coleridge criticizes the Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had...limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit.... | |
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Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit;... 
