Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Illustrations catapulted HM into fame: she was lionized by London society. She received flattering responses from Coleridge and from her precursor as a political economist, Jane Marcet .Christian Isobel Johnstone in...

Indeed, as in MM 's previous novels, the narrative technique contributes largely to the reader's enjoyment. The narrator addresses the reader as dear Madam, then (without modifying this address) invites her to call the narrator...

The subject-matter of her contributions was dictated and limited by her editor, Dunbar T. Wint , who did not believe that women had any place in the political or intellectual arena. UM nevertheless found opportunities...

In the middle or fourth stage, headed with Robert Browning 's Oh, the little more, and how much it is! the slander sallies forth, by letter, into the wider world, and implicitly threatens Zaluski's...

QDL 's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop notes, her work recalls Wordsworth 's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants of his time. She...

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

Charles and Mary Lamb set out for a jaunt northwards to the Lake District, where they stayed with the families of Coleridge at Keswick and the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson at Ambleside.

An evening at Thomas Monkhouse 's London home brought together Wordsworth , Coleridge , Charles Lamb , Thomas Moore , and Samuel Rogers . Mary Lamb , also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account.

Hoxton was London's centre for the care of the insane, with no less than three asylums. It is not clear exactly what Charles's trouble was, though it probably involved depression and may have had something...

ML 's friends (many of them made through Charles) included Eliza Fenwick (whose husband and Charles drank together), Henry Crabb Robinson , and many more canonical members of the Romantic movement. Charles was close to...

Within a few months of his death, Coleridge wrote into a copy of his own poems, beside This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Ch. And Mary Lamb—dear to my heart, yea, as it were my...

Sarah Burton observes that Charles Lamb 's poem Written a twelvemonth after the Events (of 27 May 1796), which he thought (and expected Coleridge to think) the best piece of writing he had yet produced...

LEL became strongly associated with a highly gendered construction of female poetic vocation. As Virginia Blain has argued, she became (with Hemans , and following their deaths on the cusp of the era) one progenitor...

When she met him, Kingsley was experiencing severe religious doubts. Fanny's influence in his religious development during his undergraduate years should not be underestimated. She encouraged him to read Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Thomas Carlyle

The reviewer for the Academy compared the Ballad of the Midnight Sun to Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's Christabel and spoke highly of many of the other poems.Hickey notes that in Dives and...