Samuel Taylor Coleridge

CY 's father, William Crawley Yonge , came from an established Devon family. He was related to the families of Coleridge and Patteson through an intermarriage in 1746 with Elizabeth Duke , daughter of George Duke

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...

DW first met Coleridge when he arrived on foot at Racedown to stay with her and William .

William and DW moved from Racedown in Dorset to Alfoxden House, four miles from Nether Stowey in Somerset, at the foot of the Quantock Hills, in order to be close to Coleridge and...

Though she is so closely associated with places in the English West Country and the Lake District, DW was a keen traveller. Her first trip abroad, from London via Hamburg to Goslar in Germany...

DW 's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury and Mary Ann Lamb . She was very close to Coleridge , who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June...

DW 's Alfoxden journal, written in close association with both William Wordsworth and Coleridge , filtered into the poetry of each. Her phrases surface in The Ancient Mariner (whose restless gossamers come from her restless...

This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW , for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost...

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

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 .

At this time MW 's achievements were admired by Southey , Coleridge , and many English Jacobins who felt themselves oppressed. Her friends included Elizabeth Inchbald , Mary Robinson , and more warmly Eliza Fenwick

The Critical Review noticed this as the interesting, well realised work of an author already known to the public as an ingenious writer, though not always correct either in her sentiments or her style.

A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace , Swift , and Coleridge

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...

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...