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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Flower Adams
Sarah' s father, Benjamin Flower
, was a political writer, a religious dissenter, and the editor and publisher of the Cambridge Intelligencer, which first published six of Coleridge
's early poems. In 1799 he...
Intertextuality and Influence
Grace Aguilar
The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate
Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company.
13
reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...
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...
Textual Production
Anne Bannerman
A footnote mentioned the previous issue's text of Coleridge
's Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie (not its first printing).
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
143
The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...
Friends, Associates
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, once ALB
's protegé, began a series of public attacks on her writing in lectures. He deplored the way traditional nursery stories were giving way to tales inculcating insipid goodyness.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
445
Violence
Anna Letitia Barbauld
These young men joked together about inflicting physical violence on ALB
: Coleridge
vowed to cut her to the Heart; Southey
wrote that Lamb
ought to set fire to her wig (a fictional object...
Friends, Associates
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Although their meetings were cordial, Lamb criticised her, as well as her writings, as an intellectual woman. He commented to Coleridge
that (apart from Elizabeth Inchbald
) he found clever women impudent, forward, unfeminine, and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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...
Friends, Associates
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
xlv
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
399-400
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
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.
202
Education
Mary Matilda Betham
More important than his teaching were her own efforts in a congenial atmosphere. The family would read aloud from poems and plays, providing their own appreciation and criticism. In her diary she wrote: In our...
Timeline
18 June 1744: John Newbery advertised his Little Pretty...
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18 June 1744
John Newbery
advertised his Little Pretty Pocket Book, one of the first books aimed at delighting children while instructing them.
By 18 September 1794: By this date Coleridge claimed to have written...
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By 18 September 1794
By this date Coleridge
claimed to have written one of the two sonnets attributed to him this year about the scheme for establishing Pantisocracy (a utopian community) in America.
29 December 1794: The Morning Chronicle (a paper with Opposition...
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29 December 1794
The Morning Chronicle (a paper with Opposition views) printed a sonnet, Mrs Siddons, which was attributed to Coleridge
, but was actually written by Charles Lamb
.
20 August 1795: Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed The Aeolian...
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20 August 1795
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
composed The Aeolian [or Eolian] Harp (published the following year).
By June 1796: Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet...
24 November 1800: The Morning Post printed Coleridge's love-lyric...
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24 November 1800
The Morning Post printed Coleridge
's love-lyricAlcaeus to Sappho, which he had sent in about six weeks earlier and which was probably addressed to Mary Robinson
.
About 25 January 1801: The second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared,...
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About 25 January 1801
The second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared, in two volumes, including along with its poems by Wordsworth
and Coleridge
the former's famous Preface, written in 1800.
4 October 1802: The Morning Post carried Samuel Taylor Coleridge's...
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4 October 1802
The Morning Post carried Samuel Taylor Coleridge
's Dejection: An Ode, a lamentation over his sense of lost poetic power.
1 June 1809: Samuel Taylor Coleridge began publishing...
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1 June 1809
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
began publishing his periodicalThe Friend. It ran till 15 March 1810 before being rewritten and issued as a book in 1818.
By May 1816: Samuel Taylor Coleridge published (together)...
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By May 1816
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
published (together) Christabel, Kubla Khan, and The Pains of Sleep.
Texts
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria. Editors Coleridge, Henry Nelson and Sara Coleridge, W. Pickering, 1827.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Introduction”. The Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Kathleen Raine, Grey Walls Press, 1950, p. v - ix.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Introduction”. Poems and Prose, edited by Kathleen Raine, Penguin, 1957, pp. 9-17.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Introduction”. Biographia Literaria, edited by John Shawcross, Oxford University Press, 1968, p. xi - xcvii.
Coleridge, Sara, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “On Rationalism”. Aids to Reflection, edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Henry Nelson Coleridge, 5thth ed, W. Pickering, 1843.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poetical Works [of] Coleridge, including poems and versions of poems herein published for the first time. Editor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S.T. Coleridge. Editors Coleridge, Derwent and Sara Coleridge, Little, Brown, 1854.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Wanderings of Cain. 1828.