Samuel taylor coleridge christabel

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    Christabel

    June 10,
    As I read The Gabriel Hounds last week, inom saw quotes from this poem at the beginnings of various chapters. And the heroine of that book was named Christabel, so of course i became curious about this poem.

    I've read Coleridge's Rime Of The Ancient Mariner many years ago, but I hadn't managed anything else of his until this unfinished poem. The poet planned for five parts, but only two were completed.

    Why? What happened to keep Coleridge from completing this work? That became my point of wonder while inom read this spooky poem of Christabel being taken over body and soul by the wicked Geraldine, who is obviously up to no good not only towards Christabel but against her father as well.

    So, why didn't Coleridge finish? This liner note from the preface of the edition I read at Gutenberg helps explain:
    "Since the latter date, my poetic powers have been, till very lately, in a state of suspended animation. But as, in my very first conception of the tale, I had the w
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    S T Coleridge by George Dawe c. (Wordsworth Trust)

    Exactly two hundred years ago today, on the 15th October , Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote to one of his sincere admirers. Coleridge was approaching his 43rd birthday, and had been through many anställda trials and tribulations since the publication of Lyrical Ballads in The admirer was Lord Byron, who, following the success of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and his more recently published Eastern Tales (such as The Giaour and The Corsair) was securing his status as one of the eminent and respected poetic figures of his day.

    This letter sparked the interchange that led to Byron expressing his admiration for Coleridge’s other-worldly and mysterious poem Christabel. With Byron’s support, the poem was eventually published in On the 15th October Coleridge writes of his dramatic compositions and his future ‘intentions of presenting three old plays adapted to the present stage’. This letter details his affection for Richard

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    Christabel

    2And the owls have awakened the crowing cock;

    3Tu--whit! Tu--whoo!

    4And hark, again! the crowing cock,

    5How drowsily it crew.

    6Sir Leoline, the Baron rich,

    7Hath a toothless mastiff bitch;

    8From her kennel beneath the rock

    9She maketh answer to the clock,

    10Four for the quarters, and twelve for the hour;

    11Ever and aye, by shine and shower,

    12Sixteen short howls, not over loud;

    13Some say, she sees my lady's shroud.

    14Is the night chilly and dark?

    15The night is chilly, but not dark.

    16The thin gray cloud is spread on high,

    17It covers but not hides the sky.

    18The moon is behind, and at the full;

    19And yet she looks both small and dull.

    20The night is chill, the cloud is gray:

    21'Tis a month before the month of May,

    22And the Spring comes slowly up this way.

    23The lovely lady, Christabel,

    24Whom her father loves so well,

    25What makes her in the wood so late,

    26A furlong from the castle gate?

    27She had dreams all yesternight

    28Of her own betro