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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is among history’s greatest marginalians—he left behind over 8,000 notes in around 700 volumes.1 It makes sense, then, that he courted women via marginalia. Here, he annotates a text for Sarah Hutchinson. The object of Coleridge’s affection happened to be his best friend’s sister-in-law. Also, Coleridge was marri... See more
ReNoted: Marginalia, or 5 Ways to Write in Your Books
The Complete Essays, Lectures & Letters of S. T. Coleridge (Illustrated): Literary Critiques, Studies and Memoirs, including Biographia Literaria, Aids to Reflection...
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According to Goethe, Byron’s poetical power eclipsed all other mortals, and he was not held back by petty morality, being possessed of a virtue of which the bourgeoisie had no conception.
Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
But like a steddy ship doth strongly part The raging waves, and keeps her course aright: Ne aught for tempest doth from it depart, Ne aught for fairer weather’s false delight. Such self-assurance need not fear the spight Of grudging foes; ne favour seek of friends; But in the stay of her own stedfast might Neither to one herself nor other bends. Mo
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Mans
I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create
I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create
William Blake • Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion/Plate 10 - Wikisource, the free online library
I said, this man is of an ardent and melancholy character. Those ideas which, in others, are casual or obscure, which are entertained in moments of abstraction and solitude, and easily escape when the scene is changed, have obtained an immoveable hold upon his mind.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
