The Butterfly on Mont Blanc

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The Butterfly on Mont Blanc

Poet(s)

Coleridge, Hartley
Pseudonym:
H. C.

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Source

The Penny Magazine Series 1 8:439, 48, 2 February 1839.

First line

Who would have thought it, upon this icy cliff

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Notes and attribution research

Epigraph: When Messrs, Hawes and Fellows ascended Mont Blanc, in July, 1827, they observed a butterfly near the summit. Mr. C. Shewal saw two crimson moths at nearly the same elevation. Footnote: [We have the pleasure of first printing the above verses from the pen of a living poet, in whom genius appears to assert its occasional power of becoming hereditary.] Poet attribution: Hartley Coleridge, Poems, second edition, Edward Moxon, 1851, vol. 2, pp. 84-5. (AC)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 3153

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The Butterfly on Mont Blanc