O Joy for Me by Davidson Keir;

Author:Davidson, Keir;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press Ltd.
Published: 2019-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

A wonderful passage that captures the mystery, fleeting and otherworldly effects of light and Coleridge’s fascination with what he has witnessed. At this moment the fog ‘closed over the Lake’, and they continued their walk along the track which follows the shoreline round under Place Fell and Silver Crag.

How far they went is not clear but in the next entry they visit ‘Clark’s Niagara – one of Nature’s originals, horse-shoe in shape’, which raises the possibility that their destination was Scalehow Force [‘Clark’ is their mutual friend Thomas Clarkson who lived at Eusmere in Pooley Bridge]. Once there Coleridge is clearly not that impressed by it, ‘but with none but two locumtenentes of a petty order’, and it is here that they appear to have turned around to return to Patterdale.

‘Now as we return the fog begins to clear off from the Lake’, creating some wonderful effects. The entry ends:

Lyulph’s Tower gleams like a Ghost, dim & shadowy – & the bright Shadow thereof how beautiful it is cut across by that Tongue of breezy water – now the Shadow is suddenly gone – and the Tower itself rises emerging out of the mist, two-thirds wholly hidden, the turrets quite clear – & a moment all is snatched away – Realities & Shadows.19

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