Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reduced financial circumstances did not prevent EG from meeting interesting people. In May 1823, when she went to visit an uncle who lived close to Hampstead Heath, she met at dinners the writers Joanna Baillie

On a visit to the Lake District in the early 1830s AS met Wordsworth and Coleridge .

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

Other friends included the Hon. Judith Milbanke (whose daughter became Lady Byron ), Lady Byron herself (whom Baillie strongly supported during the long-drawn-out unpleasantness of her marriage), Henry Reeve , William Sotheby , William Harness

After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald , Anna Letitia Barbauld , and Charles

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...

One of Mary Lamb 's bouts of madness seems to have been brought on by agitation about the break between Coleridge and theWordsworths .

SC had begun to experiment with opium (like her father ), which undoubtedly contributed to her worsening depression.

MS and her half-sister Fanny are reputed to have listened as Coleridge read aloud The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Godwin took all the children to Coleridge 's lectures at the Royal Institution

Unlike a volume by the same title which she published in 1827, this one included new poetry as well as former contributions to magazines. Her preface mentions the influence exercised over her by Coleridge ...

Charlotte Brontë 's poem We wove a web in childhood appears as epigraph, along with a sentence from Coleridge about the serpent as emblem of the imagination. Both web and serpent are ominous. This...

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...

ER claims to be merely the editor here of an original source. As she tells it in the preface, while doing research for Owen Tudor she happened on some curious particulars that explained everything she...

AJV is remarkably successful in catching Coleridge 's diction and manner, as several commentators noted. Lord Leoline sat in the chair of pride, / The white-armed stranger by his side. She also captures the sinister...

The title-page bears a quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's Love about a fiend with the appearance of an angel beautiful and bright. In the novel, set in Ireland, politics are a constant...