SOURCE: "Mary Elizabeth Coleridge," in The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 5, November, 1907, pp. 205-229.

In the following essay, Bridges eulogizes Coleridge and analyzes some of her best-known works.

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, whoo died unexpectedly abaut two months ago, after a few deys of acute illnes, is very widely moorn'd. Her personality was wun of those rare combinations of caracter and intelect whoose presence is everywhere beneficent and welcum; nor amung all whoom she cumforted, instructed, incurag'd, or amus'd wil ther be eny whoo can think of her with more sorrow than is inseparable from mortality. We mey imagin hau elegantly a Latin epitaph miht indulge the superlativs of its Ciceronian solicitude lest the good shud be interred with her bones; it is better tu think hau her fragment of life, a good seed of bewty, imperishable as eny link of physical cause and effect, must liv on bi the lau...