For 10 points, name this "dear babe" addressed in Coleridge's poem "Frost at Midnight."
This man wrote that he was "long time a child, and still a child, when years / Had painted manhood on my cheek," a possible reference to his expulsion from Oxford after the dean caught his drunk ass lying in a gutter. A different author observed that this man's "gentle breathings… Fill up the intersperséd vacancies / And momentary pauses of the thought." An anecdote about the time this man woke crying from a nightmare, but calmed down upon looking at the moon, is preserved in the poem "The (*) Nightingale." The speaker of another "conversation poem" predicts that "all seasons shall be sweet to" this man, even if a "secret ministry" transforms "eave-drops" into "silent icicles / Quietly shining to the quiet moon." In that poem, the only noise in a room where this man slumbers comes from a film fluttering on a grate. For 10 points, name this "dear babe" addressed in Coleridge's poem "Frost at Midnight."
This man wrote that he was "long time a child, and still a child, when years / Had painted manhood on my cheek," a possible reference to his expulsion from Oxford after the dean caught his drunk ass lying in a gutter.
Hartley Coleridge [or Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s infant; prompt on Coleridge; accept Coleridge’s baby, son, boy, kid, etc. but obviously don’t accept “Coleridge’s daughter” or related answers; accept “the poet’s” or “his” in place of “Coleridge’s” throughout this answerline]