Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The direction of WH 's life was shaped by his early meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and through him with William and Dorothy Wordsworth .

An evening at Thomas Monkhouse 's London home brought together Wordsworth , Coleridge , Charles Lamb , Thomas Moore , and Samuel Rogers . Mary Lamb , also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account.

WW first met Samuel Taylor Coleridge this month, somewhere in London, though witnesses differ as to exactly where and how.

He was acquainted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth . His relationship with the latter was often troubled because Wordsworth disapproved of his opium use and his relationship with Margaret Simpson.

The young Samuel Taylor Coleridge walked forty miles in order to meet ALB and her husband . He had already been influenced by her poetry, and she had reviewed his.

CS knew Samuel Taylor Coleridge well enough to entertain him at her house, although he had already written parodies of her sonnet style.

SC had begun to experiment with opium (like her father ), which undoubtedly contributed to her worsening depression.

One of Mary Lamb 's bouts of madness seems to have been brought on by agitation about the break between Coleridge and theWordsworths .

MS and her half-sister Fanny are reputed to have listened as Coleridge read aloud The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Godwin took all the children to Coleridge 's lectures at the Royal Institution

The title recalls Coleridge 's ancient mariner, and the moment at which, unaware, he blesses the water snakes and finds himself once more able to pray: as if the transcendental, natural world has forgiven him...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

QDL 's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop notes, her work recalls Wordsworth 's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants of his time. She...

The poem deals with an actual event that occurred at Reading Gaol : the execution of a soldier, Charles Thomas Woolridge , for wife murder. The narrator presents himself as one of the band of...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...