Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… he fled home after a fight with Francis over food, and spent the night on the bank of the river Otter thinking, ‘with inward & gloomy satisfaction, how miserable [his] Mother must be!’ 2 The incident, which would later resurface in his … everywhere— Methinks, it should have been impossible Not to love all things in a world so filled; Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air Is Music slumbering on her instrument.’ (‘The Eolian Harp’, PW I, 218) ‘The Eolian Harp’ … natural affections. From an early age, upper-class and upper middle-class children were stimulated through material rewards and the accumulation of goods instead of being taught to value family and community ties. In his Opus Maximum , he …
Affection | Benevolence | Conversation | Family | Friendship | Imagination | Patriotism | Science | Sympathy
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