The Octagon Theatre Bolton presents passionate
lunchtime readings from the great works
of our best loved nineteenth century poets.
Performed
by the theatre’s company of actors
and directed by Elizabeth Newman, the
season promises to be full of “high
romances” and “dreams”
whilst you galvanize some of our Spotlight
Cafe's finest fodder!
"Unchanged within, to see
all changed without,
Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.
Yet why at others' Wanings should'st thou
fret ?
Then only might'st thou feel a just regret,
Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy
light
In selfish forethought of neglect and
slight.
O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings
freed,
While, and on whom, thou may'st--shine
on ! nor heed
Whether the object by reflected light
Return thy radiance or absorb it quite
:
And tho' thou notest from thy safe recess
Old Friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome
air,
Love them for what they are ; nor love
them less,
Because to thee they are not what they
were."
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Duty Surviving Self-Love
In
the second in the series we look at the
work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. And ask
was he the strangest of all Romantic Poets?
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