Gents Mag 1901 part 2 p.66
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Gentleman's Magazine 1901 part 2 p.66
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
THE COLERIDGE COUNTRY. AMONG the many vicissitudes of the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, there was only one spot that possessed for him the true affinities of home. Not the Lake District, not Nether Stowey, not the dreamed-of elysium on the banks of the Susquehanna, but a village among the hills that cradle the brawling Otter, and the scenes of which that village is the centre, can alone claim the distinctive appelation of "The Coleridge Country." "For the world in general," says a biographer of the poet, "the name of Coleridge is so indissolubly connected with the Lake country and the Lake poets, that the fact of his being by birth a Devonshire man is almost forgotten." It was in the village of Ottery St. Mary that he first saw the light; in point of the time the place can claim but a few years of his existence, but it remained to him, throughout his life, the dearest spot on earth, and however Ulysses-like his subsequent wanderings may have been, a lengthening chain of memories and associations kept his mind in touch with the scenes among which his earliest ties were formed. It was, so to speak, the metropolis of his affections. and thither until the end all the avenues of his fancy and his thoughts tended. ... The rest of the article, to p.73, concerns Devon. |
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