Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, Wordsworth was a founder of the Lake School of poetry, and I have a mental image of Wordsworth wandering "lonely as a cloud" through the mountainous Lake District, penning his lines in the very settings he describes.

Carolyn Vega: Happy Birthday, William Wordsworth! Carolyn Vega 2011

Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, Wordsworth was a founder of the Lake School of poetry, and I have a mental image of Wordsworth wandering "lonely as a cloud" through the mountainous Lake District, penning his lines in the very settings he describes.

Carolyn Vega: Happy Birthday, William Wordsworth! Carolyn Vega 2011

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment," to be precise.

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Just Do It Because I Say So Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012

Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, Wordsworth was a founder of the Lake School of poetry, and I have a mental image of Wordsworth wandering "lonely as a cloud" through the mountainous Lake District, penning his lines in the very settings he describes.

Carolyn Vega: Happy Birthday, William Wordsworth! Carolyn Vega 2011

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment," to be precise.

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Just Do It Because I Say So Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012

And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism David Tereshchuk 2011

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment," to be precise.

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Just Do It Because I Say So Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 2012

The first citation for the word "ideation" in the sense of "creation of new ideas" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Week in Words Erin McKean 2011

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is in Keswick in 1802, with his two young sons, and in a very good mood.

Weatherwatch: a poet in the Lake District 2011

Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, Wordsworth was a founder of the Lake School of poetry, and I have a mental image of Wordsworth wandering "lonely as a cloud" through the mountainous Lake District, penning his lines in the very settings he describes.

Carolyn Vega: Happy Birthday, William Wordsworth! Carolyn Vega 2011