Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed
The lighthouse top I see?
Is this the hill? Is this the kirk?
Is this mine one countree?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Topic

Homecoming Home

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 1.

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Topic
Political agitation

Author

Edmund Burke
Source
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1790 1790s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!

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Topic
Home

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Letter to S.R. Crockett. 15 Aug. 1893.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Ernest Mehew. Yale University Press, 2001, ch. 15.