The big drops start
John Bayley, 7 December 1989
Coleridge: Early Visions
by Richard Holmes.
Hodder, 409 pp., £16.95, October 1989,0 340 28335 1 Show More
by Richard Holmes.
Hodder, 409 pp., £16.95, October 1989,
Wordsworth: Romantic Poetry and Revolution Politics
by John Williams.
Manchester, 203 pp., £29.95, November 1989,0 7190 3168 0 Show More
by John Williams.
Manchester, 203 pp., £29.95, November 1989,
Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays
by Bradford KeyesMudge.
Yale, 287 pp., £18.95, September 1989,0 300 04443 7 Show More
by Bradford KeyesMudge.
Yale, 287 pp., £18.95, September 1989,
“... age needed. In their different ways, Carlyle and Tennyson showed that they agreed with her, and Dr Mudge’s admirable study reveals the Coleridgean legacy embodied in a daughter who both revered her father’s memory and helped to keep alive in her editing and her promotion of him the spirit and presentness of his extraordinary being. This is a penetrating ... ”