Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsworth and Romanticism

Revisiting Coleridge's poem, 'When Absent Soon To Meet Again'

by Adam Roberts This may be stating the obvious, but the opening prose section of this Coleridge March 1810 Notebook…

scratch5th February 2018

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Wordsworth’'s poem 'The Primrose of the Rock': From Pythagoras and Pantheism to Christianity

by Fred Blick Wordsworth’s contemplation of the primrose, as seen in ‘The Primrose of the Rock’ of 1831/5, illustrates the…

scratch6th December 2017

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsworth and Romanticism

Sara Hutchinson, Coleridge’s ‘Asra’

by Adam Roberts ‘Asra’ was Coleridge's private name for Sara Hutchinson (1775-1835). There she is, in the image below (from Richard…

scratch1st November 2017

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'The Albatross': From Rime to opera

by Sinéad O'Neill Melville was right when he wrote, of the Albatross, ‘that white phantom sails in all imaginations.’ It…

scratch7th August 2017

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wordsworth and Romanticism

Romantic but hardly romantic: Sarah Fricker’s life as Coleridge's wife

by Pamela Davenport On a recent visit to Somerset, I rediscovered the beautiful Quantock Hills, which are characterised by deeply…

scratch29th July 2017

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'Most musical, most melancholy' : Nightingales in Milton, Coleridge and Keats

by Jeffrey Peters In 1973, Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence described the struggle of the Romantic poets to find a…

scratch19th July 2017

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In the footsteps of Coleridge in the Quantocks

by Tiffany Francis We had gorged on sticky ginger loaf until, feeling plump, we stepped out into the garden to…

scratch6th July 2017

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Wordsworth in Leicestershire

by Jeanne Rae Coleorton is an unremarkable village in North West Leicestershire, where the landscape was defined for almost 500…

scratch10th April 2017

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'Flashes upon the inward eye’ : Wordsworth, Coleridge and ‘Flashing Flowers’

by Fred Blick Few readers will be aware of the ‘Elizabeth Linnaeus phenomenon’ today; yet over a span of almost…

scratch22nd February 2017

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Diets of the Romantic poets

by Andrew McConnell Stott Cartoon by Mike Barfield The most notable meal in the history of English Romantic poetry took…

scratch8th August 2016

Revisiting Coleridge's poem, 'When Absent Soon To Meet Again'

Wordsworth’'s poem 'The Primrose of the Rock': From Pythagoras and Pantheism to Christianity

Sara Hutchinson, Coleridge’s ‘Asra’

'The Albatross': From Rime to opera

Romantic but hardly romantic: Sarah Fricker’s life as Coleridge's wife

'Most musical, most melancholy' : Nightingales in Milton, Coleridge and Keats

In the footsteps of Coleridge in the Quantocks

Wordsworth in Leicestershire

'Flashes upon the inward eye’ : Wordsworth, Coleridge and ‘Flashing Flowers’

Diets of the Romantic poets

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