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To Godwin
"To Godwin" or "To William Godwin" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in the 10 January 1795 ''Morning Chronicle'' as part of the ''Sonnets on Eminent Characters'' series. William Godwin was admired by Coleridge for his political beliefs. However, Coleridge did not support Godwin's atheistic views, which caused tension between the two. Although the poem praises Godwin, it invokes an argument that the two shared over theological matters. After the poem was written, the relationship between Coleridge and Godwin cooled and the poem was not reprinted.
==Background==
Coleridge's "To William Godwin, Author of ''Political Justice''" became the ninth sonnet in the series ''Sonnets on Eminent Characters'' in the 10 January 1795 ''Morning Chronicle''. Coleridge sent 6 lines of the poem to Robert Southey in a letter that read:〔Mays 2001 p. 165〕 "I have written one to Godwin—but the mediocrity of the eight first Lines is ''most miserably magazinish''! I have plucked therefore these scentless Road flowers from the Chaptlet—and intreat thee, thou River God of Pieria, to weave into it the gorgeous Water Lily from thy stream, or the fair smelling Violets on thy Bank".〔Mays 2001 qtd. p. 165〕
Coleridge was dissatisfied with the poem's quality and content, and the poem was not republished in one of Coleridge's collections of poems after it appeared in the ''Morning Chronicle''. In particular, his views of Godwin turned from the worse following the printing.〔Mays 2001 p. 166〕 By 1796, Coleridge's changed views on Godwin began to be shared by others, including his friend Charles Lamb. However, Lamb was to later befriend Godwin in 1798. By 1800, Coleridge, Lamb, and others were still associating with Godwin, and Coleridge joined others in helping Godwin produce a play at the end of the year.〔Woodcock 1989 pp. 173–174〕
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