Coleridge, "Sonnet: To Pitt" (23 December 1794)
Coleridge, "Sonnet: To Pitt" (CC 16.1.1.160-1) This sonnet was published in MC 23 December 1794, in The Morning Chronicle sequence of Coleridge's "Sonnets on Eminent Characters." The sonnet was reprinted, with minor revisions, in The Watchman 5 (2 April 1796) and in Poems (1796, 1803). The following version is from Poems (1796).
Variants 8. In the Morning Chronicle version, this line reads, "(Staining most foul a godlike Father's name)!" 13. In the Morning Chronicle version, this line reads, "Seize thou, more terrible, th'avenging brand —" |