25 July 2019, The Tablet

How Coleridge and the Wordsworths shaped poetry as we now know it

by Anthony Gardner

How Coleridge and the Wordsworths shaped poetry as we now know it

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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On a June afternoon in 1797, after a three-day tramp from Bristol, Samuel Taylor Coleridge climbed a gate and ran across a Dorset cornfield to the house where his friends William and Dorothy Wordsworth were living.

 

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