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The Destiny of Nations
The Destiny of Nations was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as part of Robert Southey's ''Joan of Arc'' epic poem. The lines were later isolated from Southey's and expanded. The new poem includes Coleridge's feelings on politics, religion, and humanity's duty to helping each other.
==Background==
The idea for ''Destiny of the Nations'' originates during mid-1795 while Coleridge gave lectures and was working with Southey on ''Joan of Arc'' epic.〔Mays 2001 p. 279〕 While working on the epic, he set many of the lines he wrote aside for his own poem. Charles Lamb's response to Coleridge's reuse of the lines was to say in a letter on 5 February 1797:〔Ashton 1997 p. 99〕
You cannot surely mean to degrade the Joan of Arc into a pot girl. You are not going, I hope, to annex to that most splendid ornament of Southey's poem all this cock and a bull story of Joan the publican's daughter of Neufchatel, with the lamentable episode of a waggoner, his wife, and six children; the texture will be most lamentably disproportionate. The first forty or fifty lines of these addenda are, no doubt, in their way, admirable, too; but many would prefer the Joan of Southey.〔Lamb 1905 p. 89〕
At the beginning of 1797, Coleridge attempted to complete the poem for a 1797 edition of his poems. However, he was unable to finish and was discouraged by Lamb's words. He soon replaced the poem with ''Ode to the Departing Year'' in the collection.〔Holmes 1989 p. 140〕 ''The Destiny of Nations'' was expanded and those lines were published in the 26 December 1797 ''Morning Post'' as ''The Visions of the Maid of Orleans: A Fragment''. Coleridge continued trying to finish the poem in 1798, but he abandoned the poem at the end of 1799 until taking it back up again in mid-1814.〔Mays 2001 pp. 279–280〕 The poem was not published in full until 1817.〔
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