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Current / Coming Events:

‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’

Oval House Theatre, London

7.30pm 21 - 23 April 2010  

A group of third year students at London Met are staging The Rime of The Ancient Mariner at the Oval House Theatre, between Oval and Vauxhall. The show is free, although people do need to confirm their attendance in advance.

Links:

Facebook:

A Friends of Coleridge Facebook page has been started by Jeffrey Barbeau as an online meeting point and potential discussion forum. 

Index:

Academic

BARS (The British Association for Romantic Studies)

Includes online reviews from past BARS Bulletins, conferences and other events.

Romantic Circles

Authoritative site with electronic editions, links etc. Two Coleridge electronic texts from this site are already linked above.

Romanticism on the Net

Online journal with articles, links and events listing. 

General Coleridge Resources

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.

The Literature Network

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.

Blake Society

Broad based society commemorating William Blake with events, lectures and an annual Blake Journal.

John Clare Society

With e-texts, articles, and events.

William Gilbert

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.

Charles Lamb Society

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.

Wordsworth Trust

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.

Wordsworth Variorum Archive

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).

International

For our many Japanese Friends

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

Hypertext meets 'Kubla Khan'

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.

The Wanderings of Cain

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 ofBiographia 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.

Romanticist Bookseller

Alex Alec-Smith Books

Bookseller specialising in Romantic period.

Visiting Nether Stowey and The Quantocks

Everything Exmoor

A good community based local directory

The Coleridge Way

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.

Poole House, Nether Stowey

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.

The National Trust

Owners of Coleridge Cottage

Somerset Tourism Pages

Celebrating Somerset: with accommodation and other travel information.

Friends of Quantock

Charity dedicated to conserving the Quantock Hills.

Quantock Online

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)

Somerset by the Sea

Sedgemoor District Council Tourism Unit. A useful resource directory covering local resorts, holiday attractions, accommodation and events.

Quantock Lodge

A gracious, historic, Victorian mansion in secluded peaceful surroundings, less than a mile from Nether Stowey. 

Visiting Other Coleridgean Places

Coleridge Memorial Project Ottery St Mary

A new initiative to commemorate Coleridge in his birthplace

Greta Hall, Keswick

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.