Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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...

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...

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...

MRM was working on this poem by July 1810. She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...

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...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

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...

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...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

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...

The poem deals with an actual event that occurred at Reading Gaol : the execution of a soldier, Charles Thomas Woolridge , for wife murder. The narrator presents himself as one of the band of...

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...

ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...

MS and her half-sister Fanny are reputed to have listened as Coleridge read aloud The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Godwin took all the children to Coleridge 's lectures at the Royal Institution

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