Letter to Joseph Cottle, early April 1797
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1797
- Publisher
- Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Volume 1
- Retrieved
- Feb 1, 2012
- ISBN
- HI-8VD72tu
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To Spend 20 Years on an Epic Poem
I should not think of devoting less than 20 years to an Epic Poem. Ten to collect materials and warm my mind with universal science. I would be a tolerable Mathematician, I would thoroughly know Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy, Botany, Metallurgy, Fossilism, Chemistry, Geology, Anatomy, Medicine—then…