Samuel Taylor Coleridge

According to her daughter she had developed an intense interest in an elderly, dignified male lunatic who became the subject of this poem. She then woke from sleep after consuming (on doctor's orders) an unusually...

Sailors carried a drowned man ashore and tried vainly to revive him. The body was roughly covered with stones at the foot of the cliffs. But not all the lower classes have sentiment: the victim...

Coleridge thought the poem anticlimactic, but exclaimed, but the Metre—ay! that Woman has an Ear! Of other poems of hers this year in various venues he remarked: She overloads every thing; but I never...

Her postscript to the volume invokes Wordsworth as model (as, indeed, her title invokes the joint work of Wordsworth and Coleridge ). Her titles (like The Shepherd's Dog and The Poor, Singing Dame) copy...

It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young , Thomas Gray , and Edward Young , as well as...

As well as MR 's account of her life, designed to mark her out as a romantic heroine and victim (and not immune from exaggeration and unreliability), this publication includes much of her other literary...

On her deathbed MR regretted that most of her works had been composed in too much haste, and declared that if, against all expectation, she should survive, she would begin a new long work...

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...

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...

MR published in the Morning PostTo the Poet Coleridge, a poem which demonstrates that she had read his Kubla Khan in manuscript.

As Lady Eastlake, ER published her English translation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School from the original German of Alois Brandl .

Anne Bradby (later AR ) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams , the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture...

Her introduction to the first selection, she said later, was more influenced by Coleridge than by Charles Williams . It was an important feature of the volume, ranging itself alongside such prestigious Shakespeare critics...

She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry , who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.

KR published her first piece of critical writing outside periodicals, an Introduction to The Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.