"In France, "Philomèle" was an operatic stage production of the story, produced by Louis Lacoste during the reign of Louis XIV.First published in the collection "Lyrical Ballads", "The Nightingale" (1798) is an effort by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) to move away from associations that the nightingale's song was one of melancholy and identified it with the joyous experience of nature.