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  • In April he joined Coleridge at his residence in Nether Stowey, where they both spent time with the poet William Wordsworth.

    william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • In April he joined Coleridge at his residence in Nether Stowey, where they both spent time with the poet William Wordsworth.

    March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Coleridge, writing in 1798 "during the alarm of an invasion", and composing his lines on Fears in Solitude as he walked through this very landscape towards Nether Stowey had broken out, to his own surprise, into almost embarrassed outpourings of patriotic fervour, after lambasting the English for their many faults: O native Britain!

    Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

  • So runs the tale as it has been told to me, more often, I think, than any other story that I have ever heard of Coleridge's life at Stowey; indeed my own father and other members of the family of the same standing, have repeatedly assured me that they have themselves heard it related by Mr. John

    Thomas Poole and his Friends 2007

  • Poole was the nephew of Thomas Poole of Nether Stowey and a friend of Coleridge and Wordsworth.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • About seven o'clock Mr. Reekes comes from Stowey; he is very indignant over the odious and detestable ill-feeling of these two young men, whom he had met at my Uncle Thomas's.

    Thomas Poole and his Friends 2007

  • At Nether Stowey they stopped to introduce themselves to the family of Thomas Poole, a twenty-eight-year-old tannery owner who would have been known to the two for his democratic leanings.

    Introduction 2007

  • The two embarked on a tour of Somerset, spending time with Thomas Poole in Nether Stowey before returning to Bristol, where they wrote The Fall of Robespierre in late

    Annotations 2007

  • On his way, according to one tradition, he stopped at his uncle's house in Nether Stowey to tell his news; according to another it was at Marshmill itself that he found his Cousin Tom, in company with two young men, introduced to him by the names of Coleridge and Southey, who not only did not show the feelings any right-thinking people might have been expected to manifest at such

    Thomas Poole and his Friends 2007

  • Stowey and his friend Poole and the lowly cottage where his babe and his babe's mother dwell in peace.

    Coleridge's Conversation Poems 1960

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