British Library Acquires Coleridge Archive
The British Library has acquired a large collection of personal papers belonging to famed British Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The collection is comprised of 350 bound volumes, including diaries and notebooks, plus 29 large archive boxes. Personal and public correspondences, such as "hundreds of letters to and from luminaries including Matthew Arnold, the poet, William Gladstone, the Prime Minister, Cardinal Newman, the Catholic convert, and the architect AW Pugin" also round out the collection.
Literary scholars may be most interested in the recollections of Coleridge by family members, as well as the schoolbook of young Sir John Taylor Coleridge, the poet's nephew, who used the schoolbook to copy poems from his uncle's original papers. The young nephew's schoolbook may yield significant comparisons with the poet's published volumes.
To read the full article, see "Coleridge's Descendants Sell Papers that Reveal Family's Views on a Maverick Poet."
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