"And what if all of animated nature / Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd, / That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps / Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, / At once the Soul of each, and God of all?"
— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date
1796, 1817
Metaphor
"And what if all of animated nature / Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd, / That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps / Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, / At once the Soul of each, and God of all?"
Metaphor in Context
And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd,
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
(p. 515, ll. 44-48)
Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd,
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
(p. 515, ll. 44-48)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Reading David Perkins, ed. English Romantic Writers. 2nd ed. (Harcourt Brace Publishers, 1995).
Compare "Effusion XXXV" in Poems on Various Subjects by S.T. Coleridge (London: Printed for G.G. an J. Robinsons and J. Cottle, 1796). <Link to ECCO>
Compare "Effusion XXXV" in Poems on Various Subjects by S.T. Coleridge (London: Printed for G.G. an J. Robinsons and J. Cottle, 1796). <Link to ECCO>
Theme
Aeolian Harp
Date of Entry
05/27/2008
