Who is sara coleridge

However with an ample library at her command and surrounded by such a learned group she flourished scholastically. She learned the classic languages and read for herself the chief Greek and Latin classics. Before she was twenty five she had learnt French, German, Italian and Spanish. In ,before she was 20,she published an Account of the Abipones which was a translation in three large volumes of Martin Dobrizhoffer's work.

Originally these had been written for her own children but they soon became very popular. Some of the songs, such as Sylvan Stay and One Face Alone, are extremely graceful and musical, and the whole volume is noticeable for the beauty of the story and the richness of its language.

Sadly in Henry Coleridge died, leaving to his widow the unfinished task of editing her father's works. During the last few years of her life Sara Coleridge was an invalid. Shortly before she died she amused herself by writing a little autobiography for her 9 year old daughter.

The letters show a cultured and highly speculative mind. They contain many apt criticisms of known people and books, and are specially interesting for their references the Lake Poets including Wordsworth. Sara Coleridge died in London on the 3rd of May My poems 5 Titles list. Rapidly, rapidly, rapidly go! Haste ye to mitigate trouble and woe! In the process, something had changed within me. What began as a timely research project soon transmuted in the stillness of the archive.

She was a living person. Read the What is Research? Mays, 3 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, , 1. Peter Swaab Manchester: Carcanet Press, , Our monthly newsletter highlights news, exhibitions, and programs. Ransom Center Magazine is an online and print publication sharing stories and news about the Harry Ransom Center , its collections, and the creative community surrounding it.

Before Footer Sign up for eNews Our monthly newsletter highlights news, exhibitions, and programs. She was educated at home by various relatives, especially Southey. Her first published work was a translation she did for him while he was writing the Tale of Paraguay. Her next work was translating from medieval French. Sara married her cousin, Henry Nelson Coleridge, in Verses she wrote for her own children were published and very popular, as was the fairy story.

After Henry's death in , Sara was left with the task of editing her father's works. January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow. One hundred and fifty-five years after her death, Dr Peter Swaab UCL English has edited the first collection of poetry by Sara Coleridge, revealing that the daughter of one of the great Romantic writers was a gifted and versatile poet in her own right.

They cover a broad range of subjects - including childhood, nature, other poets, religion, translations - and are diversely humorous, romantic and melancholy in tone. Two-thirds of the poems have remained unpublished until now. Sara Coleridge's work unsurprisingly shows the strong influence of Wordsworth, given that she grew up in the house of the poet Robert Southey, who was her uncle, and in the midst of the well-connected Lake District poetic community.

The collection divides Coleridge's work into three key periods of writing: from the age of thirteen to her marriage ; her marriage and the raising of her children ; and her widowhood to her death