Samuel Taylor Coleridge

MEC 's poems have been likened, for their mysterious tone, to those of William Blake . Among the eerie poems included in Fancy's Following is The Witch. Here the speaker, Geraldine (a sorceress), is...

SC 's editorial apparatus includes a full response to accusations that much of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's work was plagiarised.

SC and her mother travelled south for a reunion with her father at Highgate on the edge of London.

Between 1849 and 1852, SC published several more texts by her father , including Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare and Essays on His Own Times: Forming a Second Series of The Friend (1850). The Poems...

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

In 1956 a reprint of the third edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit appeared, with an introduction by Joseph Henry Green and a note by SC .

This was not to the Critical's taste. It had already this year declared its dislike of German poetry, and slammed Mary Scott 's Messiah. Now it called Mr Collyer's translation...

CFC was a very social person who made friends wherever she went. A visit in 1826 to the Frere family at Hampstead allowed her to meet several interesting characters: the poet Samuel Coleridge , the...

CFC led an active life. She remarked that the political unrest of 1822 affected her because she had ordinarily my father's business to transact. She took part in the Book Society while she lived...

He was acquainted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth . His relationship with the latter was often troubled because Wordsworth disapproved of his opium use and his relationship with Margaret Simpson.

During the later seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Donne's writings were largely forgotten or disapproved of. In June 1741 the London Magazine printed a regularised (to modern eyes butchered) version of Goe, and catche a...

GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...

In the year of publication Charles Pictet translated Practical Education into French for serialisation in the influential periodical Bibliothèque Brittanique, published in Geneva by himself and his brother Marc-Auguste . This began a campaign...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

RWE studied theology at Harvard but eventually left the priesthood when he came to doubt the sacraments. He travelled to Europe and met Carlyle , Coleridge , and Wordsworth . Upon his return to America...