1. Paul H. Fry, The Poet’s Calling in the English Ode (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980), pp. 1–8.
2. Ibid., p. 8.
3. Ibid., p. 138.
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘France: An Ode’, ll.11–14. Further references incorporated into text, referring to Fears in Solitude, Written in 1798, During the Alarm of an Invasion. To Which are Added, France: An Ode; and Frost at Midnight (London: J. Johnson, 1798), pp. 13–18.
5. See Ann Matheson, ‘The Influence of Cowper’s The Task on Coleridge’s Conversation Poems’, in New Approaches to Coleridge: Biographical and Critical Essays, ed. Donald Sultana (London: Vision Press, 1981), pp. 137–50.