The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 - The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb by Charles Lamb;Mary Lamb
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translations, with designs by Flaxman, was published in 1808, and of
Cowper's complete Milton in 1810. Wordsworth's poem would be "Guilt and Sorrow," of which a portion was printed in _Lyrical Ballads,_ 1798, and the whole published in 1842. Coleridge's "Monody on Chatterton," the first poem in his _Poems on Various Subjects_, 1796, had been written originally at Christ's Hospital, 1790: it continued to be much altered before the final version. The two lines from "Religious Musings" are not the last, but the beginning of the last passage. Coleridge contributed between three and four hundred lines to Book II. of Southey's _Joan of Arc_, as we shall see later. The poem beginning "My Pensive Sara" was Effusion 35, afterwards called "The AEolian Harp," and the lines to which Lamb refers are these, following upon Coleridge's description of how flitting phantasies traverse his indolent and passive brain:-- But thy more serious eye a mild reproof Darts, O beloved Woman! nor such thoughts Dim and unhallow'd dost thou not reject, And biddest me walk humbly with my God. The plan to resume _The Watchman_ did not come to anything. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), the theologian, at this time the object of Lamb's adoration, was one of the fathers of Unitarianism, a creed in |
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