Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Standard Name: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Textual Production Julia Wedgwood
For the next thirty-five years she published steadily on religious, scientific, and moral concerns. She also produced profiles of other authors such as George Eliot and Samuel Taylor Coleridge . A collection of this work...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Webb
The title recalls Coleridge 's ancient mariner, and the moment at which, unaware, he blesses the water snakes and finds himself once more able to pray: as if the transcendental, natural world has forgiven him...
Education Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW 's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare , Coleridge , and Whitman —and she read...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934.
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Publishing Anna Jane Vardill
The European Magazine printed AJV 's Christobell, A Gothic Tale, a sequel to Coleridge 's Christabel. Vardill's poem was for years an unsolved conundrum for scholars, since it appeared in print before Coleridge's.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
2nd series 28
, pp. 57-88.
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Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
John Abraham Heraud published in Fraser's Magazine his Reminiscences of Coleridge; in a detailed discussion of Christobell, A Gothic Tale, he inclined to the view that it was the work of Coleridge , not AJV .
Haven, Richard. “Anna Vardill Niven’s ’Christobell’: An Addendum”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol.
7
, No. 2, pp. 117-18.
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Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
William E. A. Axon read to a meeting of the Royal Society of Literature a paper about AJV , offering previously unknown information about her and her poem Christobell, A Gothic Tale, and debunking...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Jane Vardill
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Una Troubridge
Sir Henry Taylor , UT 's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready . Taylor's...
Friends, Associates Anna Swanwick
On a visit to the Lake District in the early 1830s AS met Wordsworth and Coleridge .
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin.
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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Strutt
Women, says ES , must be essentially equal with men since both are made in God's image. But women's existing social position
Strutt, Elizabeth. The Feminine Soul. J. S. Hodson.
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stems from man's superior physical strength, which has allowed him to seize...
Friends, Associates Germaine de Staël
In Regency England GS met Coleridge , Southey , and Byron . Jane Austen , however, made a point of avoiding her.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg.
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politics Robert Southey
Early in life he embraced the egalitarian principles of the French Revolution and sought with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge to raise money for political ventures through writing. He later rejected his youthful idealism and...
Family and Intimate relationships Robert Southey
He married Edith Fricker in 1795; Coleridge married her elder sister.
Author summary Robert Southey
Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth and Coleridge . In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly...

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July 1817: Coleridge published Biographia Literaria,...

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July 1817

Coleridge published Biographia Literaria, his philosophical autobiography, a landmark in Romantic literary criticism. He had finished writing it in September 1815.

Early 1818: William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets,...

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Early 1818

William Hazlitt opened On the Living Poets, the last of his Lectures on the English Poets, with a statement on gender issues.

21 February 1825: Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed a short...

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21 February 1825

Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed a short poem which is sadly characteristic of his later state of mind. He entitled it Work Without Hope.
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
21 February 2011

1828: Samuel Taylor Coleridge published The Wanderings...

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1828

Samuel Taylor Coleridge published The Wanderings of Cain, a poem originally written in 1798.

8 September 1836: The Transcendental Club (also known as the...

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8 September 1836

The Transcendental Club (also known as the Hedge Club and the Symposium ) was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; it brought together various thinkers who were at the forefront of Transcendentalism.

1875: An edition of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel...

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1875

An edition of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was published with illustrations by Gustave Doré .

10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...

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10 September 2003

Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.

May 2008: News broke of a grant of four million pounds...

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May 2008

News broke of a grant of four million pounds from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a museum of Black British history, to be established in Raleigh Hall in Brixton, South London.

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