and Coleridge, changing first person pronouns to the third person ("or" in line 83
was regularized by Wordsworth to "nor" only in 1836). The quotation of these celebrated
lines about natural inspiration underscores the association of Henry Clerval with
the Romantic poet, and more specifically, might recall Byron's remark that Percy Shelley
"dosed" him with Wordsworth during the summer of 1816.