Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Standard Name: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Occupation Walter Pater
While at Brasenose , he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge 's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake
Occupation Ralph Waldo Emerson
RWE studied theology at Harvard but eventually left the priesthood when he came to doubt the sacraments. He travelled to Europe and met Carlyle , Coleridge , and Wordsworth . Upon his return to America...
Occupation Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC led an active life. She remarked that the political unrest of 1822 affected her because she had ordinarily my father's business to transact.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co.
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She took part in the Book Society while she lived...
Literary Setting Mary Howitt
Its contents, most or all previously published in annuals and periodicals, include ballads in various styles. The Lady Magdalene exemplifies the medieval and nostalgic: Lady Magdalene, a child, remains sole survivor except for one or...
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep.
Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin.
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Although his...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
Coleridge (though he was later respectful of CS 's sonnets) was surely aiming at her in his Nehemiah Higginbottom sonnet parodies in the Monthly Magazine.
Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 363-92.
363, 381
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
Coleridge , in the preface to the second edition of his Poems, named CS and William Lisle Bowles as having served the cause of poetry by reviving the sonnet.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
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Literary responses Frances Arabella Rowden
Rowden's poem was reviewed by the Critical (3rd series 20 (May 1810): 112). Mary Russell Mitford read the first canto with high appreciation and admiration that increase[d] with every perusal. She expected it to rank...
Literary responses Dorothy Wellesley
Yeats admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw...
Literary responses Maria Edgeworth
In the year of publication Charles Pictet translated Practical Education into French for serialisation in the influential periodical Bibliothèque Brittanique, published in Geneva by himself and his brother Marc-Auguste . This began a campaign...
Literary responses Sara Coleridge
This work was seen as an early indication of SC 's talents and promise. In the year of its publication her father said My dear daughter's translation of this book is . . . unsurpassed.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Literary responses Anna Maria Bennett
Mary Russell Mitford read the Beggar Girl with delight as a schoolgirl in Chelsea, liking it not only for the character and the liveliness, but for the abundant story—incident toppling after incident; all sufficiently natural...
Literary responses Ann Radcliffe
AR 's rival M. G. Lewis finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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In 1825 Ann Lister eagerly traced...
Literary responses Mary Robinson
Coleridge thought the poem anticlimactic, but exclaimed, but the Metre—ay! that Woman has an Ear!
Curran, Stuart. “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 9-22.
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Of other poems of hers this year in various venues he remarked: She overloads every thing; but I never...
Literary responses Mary Matilda Betham
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote To Matilda Betham from a Stranger (later published privately), wishing that she might be as impassioned as Sappho —but holier and happier.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books.
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