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The Eolian Harp
''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. However, ''The Eolian Harp'' is not a love poem and instead focuses on man's relationship with nature. 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. ''The Eolian Harp'' also contains a discussion on "One Life", Coleridge's idea that humanity and nature are united along with his desire to try to find the divine within nature. The poem was well received for both its discussion of nature and its aesthetic qualities.
==Background==
Coleridge began writing ''The Eolian Harp'' on 20 August 1795 during his engagement to Sara Fricker. Like his previous conversation poem ''Lines Written at Shurton Bars'', the poem discusses both his engagement and his future marriage. Coleridge was inspired to write the poem after a visit to a house in Clevedon that would serve as his and Fricker's home after their marriage.〔Ashton 1997 p. 74〕 As Coleridge worked on the poem, he and Fricker were married and they moved to the Clevedon home. During this time, Coleridge held an idealised view of his life with Fricker, and these thoughts work their way into the poem.〔Doughty 1981 p. 97〕 The poem was published in the 1796 edition of Coleridge's poems and in all subsequent collections.〔Mays 2001 p. 231〕 Of his poems for the 1796 collection, Coleridge felt that ''The Eolian Harp'' was his favourite.〔Yarlott 1967 p. 109〕
After the poem's original creation, it was expanded from its original use of an Aeolian harp as its theme over the months that followed.〔 However, Coleridge did not stop working on it when it was first published. Instead, the poem was expanded and rewritten throughout Coleridge's life until 1817.〔Holmes 1989 p. 113〕 Of the final version, lines 21–25 were previously removed between the 1797 and 1815 editions of Coleridge's poems. Likewise, lines 26–33 were altered through the multiple editions. Regardless of the amount of editing, Coleridge believed that the poem served as a model for other poems, especially those in the series called Conversation poems.〔Mays 2001 pp. 231–232〕 Of ''The Eolian Harp'' as a model for poetry, Coleridge wrote, "Let me be excused, if it should seem to others too mere a trifle to justify my noticing it—but I have some claim to the thanks of no small number of the readers of poetry in having first introduced this species of short blank verse poems—of which Southey, Lamb, Wordsworth, and others have since produced so many exquisite specimens."〔Mays 2001 qtd. p. 232〕
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