The Eolian Harp
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- "Effusion 35, written at Cleveden" in Poems on Various Subjects (1796)
- "The Eolian Harp" in Sibylline Leaves (1817)
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The Eolian Harp is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795 and published in his 1796 poetry collection. It is one of the early conversation poems and discusses Coleridge's anticipation of a marriage with Sara Fricker along with the pleasure of conjugal love. The central images of the poem is an Aeolian harp, an item that represents both order and wildness in nature. Along with the harp is a series of oppositional ideas that are reconciled with each other. Warning: template has been deprecated.