Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Unruly Times, 1989, she considers the shared thinking of Wordsworth and Coleridge , and its development in the context of epoch-making public events and the intellectual climate which surrounded them.

She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge scholar, Kathleen Coburn , and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...

The title is probably quoted from Coleridge 's Ancient Mariner: not from the mariner's exotic adventures, but from a mention of the bride whose wedding his listener was trying to attend, and for which...

Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson published...

In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...

Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...

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.

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...

MMB said that this book received flattering praises in reviews. It also brought compliments of some distinguished persons and two tributary effusions from writers from profession: Mr J. (apparently Edward Jerningham ) and...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...