Wordsworth thought “very highly” of Coleridge, but Coleridge considered his new friend “a very great man.” Together, he thought, they were going to compose the greatest poem ever written, a ...
"Wordsworth and Coleridge were very different, not only the men themselves, but the circumstances of the composition of their principal critical works," said T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton ...
The poetic friendship of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Is there an English major who hasn’t thrilled to the story of what is undoubtedly the most famous literary friendship in English letters? The account ...
The Refuge from the Ravens project places new works alongside the original, ‘redefining it to help people grasp the concept’ of homelessness A new version of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ...
Jonathan Kirsch is the author of, most recently, "A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization." IF it weren’t for “Brown ...
IN the absence of any adequate biography of Coleridge, these two volumes of his letters, 1 edited by his grandson, Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, will be eagerly welcomed. By far the greater part of ...
ADAM SISMAN'S most recent book was a skilful account of a literary friendship between Dr Johnson, the great 18th-century raconteur, essayist, dictionary-maker and poet, and his faithful amanuensis and ...