what is its source?
Coleridge draws upon many poems, including ideas from William Cowper's "Task". There is also a possible connection to John Thelwall's poem "To the Infant Hampden.—Written during a Sleepless Night.
Frost at Midnight
Coleridge draws upon many poems, including ideas from William Cowper's "Task". There is also a possible connection to John Thelwall's poem "To the Infant Hampden.—Written during a Sleepless Night.
what is the poem frost at midnight about The poem discusses Coleridge's childhood experience in a negative manner and emphasizes the need to be raised in the countryside. who is the writer? Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian when was it written? February 1798
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Frost at Midnight [SEP] Sources
Coleridge draws upon many poems, including ideas from William Cowper's "Task". There is also a possible connection to John Thelwall's poem "To the Infant Hampden.—Written during a Sleepless Night. Derby. Oct. 1797" along with his other poems "On Leaving the Bottoms of Glocestershire" and "Maria: A Fragment". Other sources are William Collins "Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland". In terms of philosophy, Coleridge brings together ideas in George Berkeley's "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision" and David Hartley's "Observations on Man".