SOURCE: A review of The Dream and Other Poems in The Quarterly Review, Vol. LXVI, No. CXXII, September, 1840, pp. 374-82.

In this frequently cited review, Coleridge refers to Norton as "the Byron of modern poetesses" because of the passion and tenderness in her poetry.

[Caroline Norton] is the Byron of our modern poetesses. She has very much of that intense personal passion by which Byron's poetry is distinguished from the larger grasp and deeper communion with man and nature of Wordsworth. She has also Byron's beautiful intervals of tenderness, his strong practical thought, and his forceful expression. It is not an artificial imitation, but a natural parallel: and we may add that it is this her latest production, which especially induces, and seems to us to justify, our criticism. The last three or four years have made Mrs. Norton a greater writer than she was; she is deeper...