Original sentence: Later, Coleridge planned a lecture for the summer of 1795 that would compare Lafayette with Robert Devereux.The emphasis on Lafayette as a political prisoner that was being martyred for his beliefs would be relied on again in "To Kosciusko", the next poem in the Sonnets on Eminent Characters series
Edited sentence: "To Kosciusko" was first published in the 16 December 1794 Morning Chronicle.Coleridge discussed Kosciusko throughout his works, including a lecture series that Coleridge gave during 1795 and articles in his newspaper, Watchman.Coleridge knew few details about the specifics, which showed in alterations of the poem.John Keats and the Culture of Dissent.Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.Roe, Nicholas.Tadeusz Kościuszko led Poland in rebellion against two countries, Prussia and Russia, during the spring of 1794.The British Romantic poets favoring of Kosciusko as a hero can be traced to Coleridge, and Leigh Hunt published his own sonnet on Kosciusko in 1815 with John Keats following with his own in 1817.The emphasis on Kosciusko as a political prisoner that was being martyred for his beliefs connects "To Kosciusko" with "To Fayette".They viewed Koscuisko as a figure connected to Alfred the Great, the individual that was believed to have established English constitutional liberty.When the rebellion was crushed by that October, he was captured by Russian forces and held as a prisoner