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W. Stevenson (1991)
Byron and Coleridge: The Eagle and the DoveThe Byron Journal, 19
NICHOLAS HALMI Among the observers of Lord Byronâs funeral procession as it passed through London on its way to Nottinghamshire on 12 July 1824 were two poets whose reactions on the occasion were recorded. Standing in Oxford Street, John Clare concluded from the size and appearance of the crowd that while âthe Reverend the Moral and fastid[i]ous may say what they please about Lord Byrons fame and damn it as they list ⦠the common people felt his merits and his power and the common people of a country are the best feelings of a prophecy of futurityâ.1 Standing in Highgate High Street, Samuel Taylor Coleridge expressed an equal conï¬dence in the dead poetâs future reputation: âaccording to the noble wont of the English people, Byronâs literary merits would seem continually to rise, while his personal errors, if not denied, or altogether forgotten, would be little noticed, & would be treated with ever softening gentlenessâ.2 What is remarkable about Coleridgeâs prediction, as recorded by the chemistâs apprentice to whom it was addressed, is that it accords so closely with Clareâs, betraying none of the bitterness with which his personal contact with Byron had ended in 1819. At that
Romanticism – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jul 1, 2004
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