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...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Wordsworth
DW
first met Coleridge
when he arrived on foot at Racedown to stay with her and William
.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press.
1: 317
Residence
Dorothy Wordsworth
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...
Travel
Dorothy Wordsworth
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...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Wordsworth
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dorothy Wordsworth
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...
Textual Production
Dorothy Wordsworth
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...
Friends, Associates
William Wordsworth
WW
first met Samuel Taylor Coleridge
this month, somewhere in London, though witnesses differ as to exactly where and how.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press.
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
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Wollstonecraft
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 16 (1796): 209
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
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
Intertextuality and Influence
Oscar Wilde
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...
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...
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.