Unknown 1795 poem sheds new light on the shared poetical taste of the Coleridge circle in Bristol.

What is it about?

'Evening', a poem by an unidentified mental patient was copied by Joseph Cottle into his 'Bristol Album', which had contributions from the Coleridge-Southey-Wordsworth circle, in 1795, not long before Coleridge began writing 'Effusion 35', aka. 'The Eolian Harp'. 'Evening' shares some phrases with the early version of Coleridge's poem, and its first publication here adds to our knowledge of the shared poetical tastes of that circle when Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth were forming the new kind of poetry we now identify as romantic.

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