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Current / Coming Events:
21 June 2008
Summer Arts Conference, The Bridge Foundation for Psychotherapy and the Arts
The Mansion House, Bristol.
The notebooks of Coleridge, the diaries of Virginia Woolf and the poems of Louis MacNeice.
Speakers: Alison Light, author of the acclaimed Mrs Woolf and the Servants (on Virginia Woolf); Melanie Hart, psychotherapist and writer, (on Louis MacNeice); Paul Cheshire (on Coleridge's Notebooks). See Programme. Booking form
This is the latest in a series of successful events connecting psychotherapy and the arts, and we are glad to see Coleridge featuring. Previous Bridge events events have included papers on Coleridge from John Beer (1990), and Robert Woof (1997)
George Herbert’s Living Legacies:
10-11 October, 2008
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on George Herbert's reception history.
Papers on Coleridge and Herbert warmly invited. Conference Website:
Links:
General Literary / Romantic Author Sites
Visiting Nether Stowey and The Quantocks
Visiting Other Coleridgean Places
BARS (The British Association for Romantic Studies)
Includes online reviews from past BARS Bulletins, conferences and other events.
Authoritative site with electronic editions, links etc. Two Coleridge electronic texts from this site are already linked above.
Online journal with articles, links and events listing.
An information resource for English literature with excellent search facilities. Primarily academic but has much wider application. Currently it lists associations, publishers, journals, events, university departments and job vacancies.
Crawford Coleridge Bibliography
An online 2003 supplement to the comprehensive two volumes of Coleridge bibliography published by W.B. and A. Crawford.
The Coleridge & Southey Genealogy Home Page
The family trees.
The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
Includes: E-texts of Coleridge's poetry with themed hyperlinks; a wealth of features on Coleridge.
A brief biography of Coleridge with e-texts of his major poems; quite a good starting point for someone new to Coleridge wanting a quick introduction.
General Literary / Romantic Author Sites
Alliance of Literary Societies
News and connections to literary societies in the UK.
Broad based society commemorating William Blake with events, lectures and an annual Blake Journal.
With e-texts, articles, and events.
A site dedicated to the author of The Hurricane (1796), who associated with Coleridge in Bristol. Poet, theosophist, astrologer and magus, and pet project of the author of this website. Includes e-texts of The Hurricane and Gilbert's rarer writings, and online articles.
Coleridge and Lamb were firm friends in life and the enduring link between them is reflected in the number of people who have membership of both associations. Members receive the Quarterly Charles Lamb Bulletin.
Dove Cottage in the Lake District is established in the popular imagination as the Mecca of the romantic movement. While we try to remind the world that the Lyrical Ballads originated from Wordsworth's time at Alfoxden in the Quantock Hills, we still salute the Lakes.
A new website with variorum e-texts of Wordsworth's poems, by published volume. The contents currently run from An Evening Walk (1793) to Yarrow Revisited (1835).
Nether Stowey twinned with Chiba City. We salute Kaz Oishi's Coleridgean website, which will be of great benefit to our Japanese members.
Online Coleridgean Studies particularly suited for hypertextual reading
The authors Lisa and Jonathan Price take full advantage of the hypertext medium to link 'Kubla Khan' to its various sources, and provide generous extracts from these. The sources listed range from the well-known such as William Bartram and Purchas, to the lesser known such as Athanasius Kircher and Jerome Lobo. It's very well put together and a real treat to graze in.
Published by Romantic Circles, e-text edited by Nikki Santilli. This ingenious collation of texts and fragments is tantamount to an archaeological reconstruction. Coleridge wrote to Byron in 1815 describing this as a lost poem: "I have unfortunately lost the only copy--and can remember no part distinctly but the first stanza...Sir G. Beaumont [Wordsworth's patron] thought it the most impressive of my compositions--& I shall probably compose it over again". As if....(CL IV 601-2)
Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition
Published by
Romantic Circles and Cambridge University Press, edited by
Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault. It covers 5 published
states of Lyrical Ballads and uses the electronic
format to great advantage.
“Frost at Midnight” online study guide
By David Miall and Don Kuiken of the University of Alberta as part of an intended 'Literature and Psychology' series. E-text of the poem, critical essays by well-known figures enhanced by an illuminating contextualisation within theories on the psychology of attachment, loss and fantasy.
“Ancient Mariner” hypertext essay
By David Miall - focusing on the psychological dimensions of the poem and how this relates to Coleridge biographically.
A Hypertext History of the Transmission of Coleridge's "Christabel," 1800-1816
Chris Koenig-Woodyard's essay from Romanticism on the Net takes full advantage of the possibilities of hypertext links to set out the complex nexus of Christabel's pre-publication history.
E-text of Biographia Literaria
Volume 1 of Biographia edited 2003 by Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto Representative Poetry Online. The site contains other e-texts (including criticism) that will be of interest.
Bookseller specialising in Romantic period.
Visiting Nether Stowey and The Quantocks
This 36 mile walk from Nether Stowey to Porlock, which opened in 2005, now has its own website with full route details, OS mapping, details of accommodation providers along the route, information on transport and a picture gallery. Everything you need to plan a walk and stay along the route.
The new owners of this property (Thomas Poole's old house that backed on to the Lime-tree bower) are currently living abroad and it is available as a holiday let. Sleeps 12.
Owners of Coleridge Cottage
Celebrating Somerset: with accommodation and other travel information.
Charity dedicated to conserving the Quantock Hills.
A community resource for the Quantock area that is of equal use for the local community and visitors (or virtual visitors: there is a splendid gallery of Quantock photographs)
Sedgemoor District Council Tourism Unit. A useful resource directory covering local resorts, holiday attractions, accommodation and events.
A gracious,
historic, Victorian mansion in secluded peaceful surroundings, less than a
mile from Nether Stowey.
Visiting Other Coleridgean Places
Coleridge
lived in Greta Hall between 1800 and 1806. The house has been
sympathetically restored and has suites of various sizes available for
holiday let. The view from his study window is
described repeatedly in his notebook writing of the time, and it is even possible to
sleep in this room, where he wrote 'Dejection' in April 1802. (Read descriptions
by Coleridge and Charles
Lamb).
NB.
The house is
only opened to the public on English Heritage Open Days. Tours of the whole house then afternoon tea in what
was the Coleridges' kitchen. Details can be found on their website usually from about June.
Coleridge and Highgate - Literary Walks
Although the Gillmans house at Highgate, London, that Coleridge lived in from 1816 until his death is in private hands, Coleridge has left his mark on the area and guided walks aimed at the Coleridge enthusiast are available.