On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, David E. Latane wrote:
> Coleridge has a number of poems about infants that might be considered in
> the feminine voice, if one were to find that reifying distinction useful.
> See in particular "To an Infant" of 1796, including variations.
> STC's poetry of 1796 is pretty much baby-obsessed. Romantic
> scholars have explored the inter-relationships at this juncture between
> Coleridge's poetry and the poetry of Charlotte Smith ("Elegaic Sonnets")
> and other women writers of the age of sentiment.
>
> David Latane
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There is also an infant at the speaker's side in one of my favorite
Coleridge poems, "Frost at Midnight," another work that does all the
things David Latane says STC often does, and from the same time period, if
memory serves.
David Zauhar
University of Illinois at Chicago
"i have a city to cover with lines"
--d.a. levy
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