"Medievalism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nautical term. Probably Coleridge used it to give a suggestion of ante-Reformation times. The more familiar word for the evening service in the English Church is "even-song," but Coleridge in line 595 prefers "the little vesper bell" for its suggestion of medievalism. ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
