Samuel Taylor Coleridge

According to her daughter she had developed an intense interest in an elderly, dignified male lunatic who became the subject of this poem. She then woke from sleep after consuming (on doctor's orders) an unusually...

Sarah Burton observes that Charles Lamb 's poem Written a twelvemonth after the Events (of 27 May 1796), which he thought (and expected Coleridge to think) the best piece of writing he had yet produced...

SC 's editorial apparatus includes a full response to accusations that much of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's work was plagiarised.

It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young , Thomas Gray , and Edward Young , as well as...

As well as MR 's account of her life, designed to mark her out as a romantic heroine and victim (and not immune from exaggeration and unreliability), this publication includes much of her other literary...

The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .

Its contents are studies of Blake's thought as related to changes occurring at the time of KR 's writing. She argues that the Romantic poets, particularly Coleridge and Blake, led the way in adhering to...

Warner and Ackland point out in a Note to the Reader, which is a kind of manifesto, that the text is not a collaboration, but rather a joint collection of their poetry. They explain...

They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic...

Her introduction to the first selection, she said later, was more influenced by Coleridge than by Charles Williams . It was an important feature of the volume, ranging itself alongside such prestigious Shakespeare critics...

The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB said later, were William Hayley and...

The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer , with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking...

Though she avoids apology and excessive humility, AY seeks sympathy in this volume by touching on her own poverty and suffering. She perhaps took this technique from the craze for Goethe 's Werther, which...

After an epigraph from Coleridge 's Dejection: An Ode (1802), this volume reprints the contents of CW's two former poetry volumes, adding a total of four unpublished poems.

Sailors carried a drowned man ashore and tried vainly to revive him. The body was roughly covered with stones at the foot of the cliffs. But not all the lower classes have sentiment: the victim...