The Independent - London, June 22nd, 1997
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the achievements of the first-generation Romantic poets depended greatly on the women in their lives. Henry Crabb Robinson said of Wordsworth: "If Providence had not blessed him with a wife, a sister, a wife's sister and a daughter . . . it is probable that many of his verses . . . would have been scattered to the winds." (He might reasonably have added: "or not have been written at all".) Coleridge's daughter Sara echoed the thought. "Never," she said, "was a Poet so blessed before {as my father} in the ladies of his household." In both remarks, we ...
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