August 20th
1795 The Aeolian Harp and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
While
sitting in a garden in Somerset, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge listens to
the mysterious tones created by the Aeolian harp a stringed instrument played
by the wind alone. This ‘transposing of
the spirit of the wind’ inspires a poem.
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
‘And that
simplest lute, plac`d length-ways in the clasping casement, hark! How by the
desultory breeze caress`d, like some coy maid half-yielding to her lover, It
pours such sweet upbraiding’
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