Nether Stowey
1796 Moves to Nether Stowey, Somerset with family.
1797 Friendship with Tom Poole. Assciation with Worthworth develops; William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and Charles and Mary Lamb, stay at Stowey; Coleridge writes This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison; Wordsworths move to Alfoxden, near Stowey; Coleridge publishes a second edition of ‘Poems’; writes Kubla Khan and Part One of Christabel; attempts at collaboration with Wordsworth fail and Coleridge begins The Ancient Mariner; works for the ‘Morning Post’.
1798 Accepts Wedgwood annuity; Berkeley born (May); finishes The Ancient Mariner; writes Frost at Midnight, France: An Ode, and Fears in Solitude – published as a book later in the year; Lyrical Ballads (co-authored with Wordsworth) published, containing The Ancient Mariner; travels to Germany with the Wordsworths and Wordsworth begins The Prelude, the Poem to Coleridge. Leaves Nether Stowey for London in 1799.
Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey – National Trust
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Read more about Coleridge Cottage, the cottage in Lime Street, in which he wrote some of his most famous poetry,
To read an account of the acquisition of Coleridge Cottage, click here.
Thomas Poole Booklet (Stowey benefactor and friend of the famous) (Click to read)
Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth night walking in the Quantock Hills (click to read)
A walk with Coleridge around Stowey (click to read)
An imagined walk from Racedown to Crewkerne with Coleridge and the Wordsworths, by David Stevens (click to read)
David Stevens, a loyal Friend of Coleridge, has written an account of the walk that STC, Dorothy and William Wordsworth took from Racedown to Crewkerne in June 1797. It is a vividly imagined description of conversation and place. Click here to read a PDF file of the work, which David hopes to develop into an illustrated booklet. It is well worth a read!
