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title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a> in 1791. It describes Coleridge's feelings of leaving school for Cambridge in an optimistic manner quite contrary to the views he expressed later in life. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=On_Quitting_School&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coleridge attended <a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_Hospital" title="Christ's Hospital">Christ's Hospital</a> for his pre-college education and completed many poetic exercises there. During his final year, he wrote "On Quitting School for College" for an exercise. He included his feelings about his school years, his future at college, and his childhood home at Ottery.<sup id="cite_ref-Ashton_p._30_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ashton_p._30-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was completed during the summer of 1791 (see <a href="/wiki/1791_in_poetry" title="1791 in poetry">1791 in poetry</a>) and included in the <i>Ottery Copy Book</i>, a manuscript containing poetry from Coleridge's early years. The poem was eventually published in the 1834 edition of Coleridge's poems (see <a href="/wiki/1834_in_poetry" title="1834 in poetry">1834 in poetry</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another poem titled "Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge", and Coleridge stated that he wrote it during 1791. It was published in the Sherborne <i>Weekly Entertainer</i> during the summer of 1793<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and again in the October 1794 <i><a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Intelligencer" title="Cambridge Intelligencer">Cambridge Intelligencer</a></i>. The tone of the later edition is serious, whereas a possible 1792 version in a letter could be a parody.<sup id="cite_ref-Watson_p._48_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watson_p._48-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Poem">Poem</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=On_Quitting_School&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Poem"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"On Quitting School" is a sonnet dedicated to saying goodbye to Christ's Hospital and Ottery:<sup id="cite_ref-Ashton_p._30_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ashton_p._30-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Farewell parental scenes! a sad farewell!<br /> To you my grateful heart still fondly clings,<br /> Tho' fluttering round on Fancy's burnish'd wings<br /> Her tales of future Joy Hope loves to tell.<br /> Adieu, adieu! ye much-lov'd cloisters pale!<sup id="cite_ref-STC29_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC29-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div> <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 1–5</cite></div></blockquote> <p>There is a tone of regret within the poem:<sup id="cite_ref-Kneale_p._89_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kneale_p._89-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Ah! would those happy days return again,<br /> When 'neath your arches, free from every stain,<br /> I heard of guilt and wonder'd at the tale!<sup id="cite_ref-STC29_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC29-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div> <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 6–8</cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Absence">Absence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=On_Quitting_School&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Absence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like "On Quitting School", "Absence" deals with saying farewell to a time, although it is uncertain what specific event or subject he was remembering. The subtitle "A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge" is a variation of the poem alters the meaning of the poem.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The poem begins with a respectful description of the narrator's education:<sup id="cite_ref-Watson_p._48_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watson_p._48-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Where graced with many a classic spoil<br /> Cam rolls his reverened stream along,<br /> I haste to urge the learnéd toil<br /> That sternly chides my love-lorn song:<sup id="cite_ref-STC2930_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC2930-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div> <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 1–4</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Like "On Quitting School", there is also a tone of regret:<sup id="cite_ref-Kneale_p._89_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kneale_p._89-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Ah me! too mindful of the days<br /> Illumed by Passion's orient rays,<br /> When Peace, and Cheerfullness and Health<br /> Enriched me with the best of wealth.<br /> Ah fair Delights! that o'er my soul<br /> On Memory's wing, like shadows fly!<br /> Ah Flowers! which Joy from Eden stole<br /> While Innocence stood smiling by!—<sup id="cite_ref-STC2930_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC2930-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div> <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 5-12</cite></div></blockquote> <p>It is possible that the 1792 poem, "A Fragment Found in a Lecture Room", is a parody and makes fun of his education (called Mathesis) as the first four lines of this poem read:<sup id="cite_ref-Watson_p._48_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watson_p._48-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Where deep in mud Cam rolls his slumbrous stream,<br /> And bog and desolation reign supreme;<br /> Where all Boeotia clouds the misty brain,<br /> The owl Mathesis pipes her loathsome strain.<sup id="cite_ref-STC35_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STC35-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div> <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>lines 1–4</cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=On_Quitting_School&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The terms that Coleridge uses to describe his time at Ottery and at school are more positive than his real feelings. Years later, he would recall bad experiences from his school days and include negative descriptions of the time in poems such as "Frost at Midnight".<sup id="cite_ref-Ashton_p._30_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ashton_p._30-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The final years at Christ's Hospital were filled with pain and suffering, as Coleridge lost both a brother and a sister at the time, and these emotions come out in the poetry during that time. Richard Holmes, Coleridge's late 20th-century biographer, wrote, "Perhaps this also explains the intense emotion with which he finally left Christ's Hospital that summer, celebrated in his 'Sonnet:On Quitting School for College' [...] He bid 'Adieu, adieu! to the 'much-lov'd cloisters pale!', and spoke in tears of his happy days there".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, the later poem on saying goodbye to Christ's Hospital, "Absence", is a serious, but it is possible that an early version of the poem was a parody.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The tone and language of the poem is influenced by William Bowles's poetry; it differs from 18th-century poetic conventions and connects the style of the poem to many of Coleridge's other poems of the time, including "To the Autumnal Moon", "Pain", "On Receiving an Account that his only Sister's Death was Inevitable" and "To the River Otter".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, Coleridge uses the word "ah" in a regretful manner which is common to many of his poems, including "On Receiving an Account", "Absence" and "To the River Otter".<sup id="cite_ref-Kneale_p._89_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kneale_p._89-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=On_Quitting_School&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Ashton_p._30-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ashton_p._30_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ashton_p._30_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ashton_p._30_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ashton 1997 p. 30</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mays 2001 p. 54</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mays 2001 p. 61</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Watson_p._48-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Watson_p._48_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Watson_p._48_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Watson_p._48_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Watson 1966 p. 48</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-STC29-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-STC29_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-STC29_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Coleridge 1921 p. 29</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kneale_p._89-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Kneale_p._89_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kneale_p._89_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kneale_p._89_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kneale 1999 p. 89</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mays 2001 pp. 60–61</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-STC2930-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-STC2930_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-STC2930_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Coleridge 1921 pp. 29-30</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-STC35-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-STC35_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Coleridge 1921 p. 35</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Holmes 1989 p. 38</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Watson 1966 pp. 48–49</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Holmes 1989 p. 35</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=On_Quitting_School&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.</li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFColeridge1921" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Coleridge, Samuel Taylor</a> (1921). <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hartley_Coleridge" title="Ernest Hartley Coleridge">Coleridge, Ernest Hartley</a> (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/poemsofsamueltay1921cole/page/n9"><i>The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge</i></a>. Oxford University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Poems+of+Samuel+Taylor+Coleridge&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1921&rft.aulast=Coleridge&rft.aufirst=Samuel+Taylor&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpoemsofsamueltay1921cole%2Fpage%2Fn9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOn+Quitting+School" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Holmes, Richard. <i>Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804</i>. New York: Pantheon, 1989.</li> <li>Kneale, J. Douglas. <i>Romantic Aversions</i>. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.</li> <li>Mays, J. C. C. (editor). <i>The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetical Works</i> I Vol I.I. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.</li> <li>Watson, George. <i>Coleridge the Poet</i>. 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on the Death of Chatterton">Monody on the Death of Chatterton</a>"</li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">On Quitting School</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Pain:_Composed_in_Sickness" title="Pain: Composed in Sickness">Pain: Composed in Sickness</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Songs_of_the_Pixies" title="Songs of the Pixies">Songs of the Pixies</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_Dark_Ladi%C3%A9" title="The Ballad of the Dark Ladié">The Ballad of the Dark Ladié</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love_(Coleridge)" title="Love (Coleridge)">Love</a></i> (<i>Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie</i>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Plays</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;font-style:italic;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_Robespierre" title="The Fall of 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