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 Keyes Mudge.
Yale, 287 pp., £18.95, September 1989,0 300 04443 7 Show More
by Bradford Keyes Mudge.
Yale, 287 pp., £18.95, September 1989,
“... in the autumn of 1799 with the Hutchinson sisters – Mary, Sara and Joanna – at their brother Tom’s Yorkshire farm. Coleridge laid himself out to charm them and succeeded. The middle sister, Sara, whom he would call Asra, to set her apart from his own wife Sara, became his prime female figure of worship and consolation. Mary was to have a long and ... ”