Samuel Taylor Coleridge

MMB said that this book received flattering praises in reviews. It also brought compliments of some distinguished persons and two tributary effusions from writers from profession: Mr J. (apparently Edward Jerningham ) and...

Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...

In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received.An article in the Journal of the Lakeland Dialect Society in 1947 argued that her best work was...

Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson published...

The title is probably quoted from Coleridge 's Ancient Mariner: not from the mariner's exotic adventures, but from a mention of the bride whose wedding his listener was trying to attend, and for which...

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...

In Unruly Times, 1989, she considers the shared thinking of Wordsworth and Coleridge , and its development in the context of epoch-making public events and the intellectual climate which surrounded them.

She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge scholar, Kathleen Coburn , and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...

After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC ) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray . She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge ,...

SC wrote: No work is so inadequately rewarded either by money or credit as that of editing miscellaneous, fragmentary, immethodical literary remains like those of STC . Such labours cannot be rewarded for they cannot...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was MEC 's great-great uncle. She once wrote of this literary heritage: I have no fairy god-mother, but lay claim to a fairy great-great-uncle, which is perhaps the reason that I am...

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

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...

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