This is a picture of the portable Venture Grant Aeolian Harp in South Carolina.
Sam Coleridge
In honor of tonight's poetry slam, I have posted a link to a slam poem titled, "So Edgar Alan Poe was in this Car" this slam poem also includes Sam Coleridge as a character. The poem is more funny than poetic, but "slams" are about the perfomance--at least someone cleaned up the language on this version before putting it on you tube.
Coleridge inspired many of the "gothics." An excerpt of Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" appears in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein after Victor has accomplished his goal of reanimation, and he walks through the streets of Ingolstadt from night to early morning fearing his creation:
Like one, who on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And, having once turn'd round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
I always find it odd, however, that Victor would burst into "Ancient Mariner" while recounting his story to Walton, but that's another story.
