Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside! (S.T. Coleridge, 1817)

Signed and inscribed by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, this short poem called ‘Fancy in the Clouds: a Marine Sonnet’ was written on a piece of seaweed and sent to Charles Lamb.

The first sonnet that the poet had written for more than a decade, and described by Coleridge as “th…

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