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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowing into that plaited nest [...] Reading Thomas A'Quin...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgelettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1850-1899'... some verses which I wrote turn out, on inspection, to be not quite equal to "Kubla Khan".'Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel Taylor ColeridgeKubla KhanPrint: Book
1850-1899'[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner "A Seraph band" &c, - for each figure was motionless and bright, & the sm...Margaret Emily (Meta) Gaskell Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRime of the Ancient mariner, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'there is one Story if story it may be called, that Shape or Limb, Beginning or End has none, "The ancient Mariner or poets Reverie" written by a friend [of Wordsworth] (...George Crabbe Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRime of the Ancient Mariner, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's "Ode on Dejection" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses those bad negative states in which one looks and sees n...George Barker Samuel Taylor ColeridgeDejection: An OdePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart Samuel Taylor Coleridge[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry'John Ruskin Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been reading a pamphlet by Mr Coleridge, which he calls ''The Statesman's Manual, a Lay Sermon.''... I do think I never did read such stuff as the sermon, such an...Sarah Wedgwood Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Statesman's Manual, a Lay SermonPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'Your poems I shall procure forthwith. There were noble lines in what you inserted in one of your Numbers from Religious Musings, but I thought them elaborate. I am som...Charles Lamb Samuel Taylor ColeridgeReligious MusingsPrint: Serial / periodical, Extracts from poems in periodical.
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.<...		Bruce Dilks Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.<...		Knox Taylor Samuel Taylor ColeridgeChristabelUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.<...		Margaret Dilks Samuel Taylor ColeridgeKubla KhanUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.<...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of ChamouniUnknown
1800-1849'I have just been reading 'The Letters, Conversations', &c., of this extraordinary man - and must give thee this idea conveyed in a letter to one of his friends' [q...Eliza Ellis Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLetters, Conversations and Recollections of Samuel...Print: Book
1800-1849‘[William] Blackwood expresses much admiration of the Fletcher Letters, but thinks their republication at this time would not be just the thing - requests me to use my ...William Blackwood Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLetters to Mr. Justice Fletcher on the Irish Quest...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849‘...what makes you think that I dislike your ‘Table-Talk’?...I might tell Derwent [Coleridge], that the book gave me no feeling of my father’s manner, which it does not...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSpecimens of the Table-Talk of S. T. ColeridgePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Mr father could not have written the Ancient Mariner at sixty, yet who will say that his genius declined? The Genius was there as mighty as ever, but the frame could n...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Owen Lloyd has lent me an essay on Faith by my Father transcribed by poor Charles Lloyd. It will probably make a good addition to your forthcoming volumes. I will tran...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEssay on FaithManuscript: Sheet


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