Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper

Heidi Thomson is Associate Professor of English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and President of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia. She is the editor of novels by Maria Edgeworth and the author of numerous chapters and articles about Thomas Gray, William Collins, Edgeworth, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats.

“The book is a worthy contribution to the body of works about Coleridge’s persistent self-fashioning, and illuminates a previously neglected area of his Morning Post journalism and his relationship with Robinson.” (Philip Aherne, Modern Language Review, Vol. 114 (3), July, 2019)“Heidi Thomson’s Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper: The ‘Morning Post’ and the Road to ‘Dejection’ provides a well-researched look at the connection between Coleridge’s life and work between 1799 and 1802. ... This book will be valuable to Coleridge scholars for the new network of texts that it assembles.” (Christine Woody, The Coleridge Bulletin, Vol. 50, 2017)“Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper offers a fascinating account of Coleridge's inner life in a clearly written, well organized format. Thomson's arguments are thoroughly grounded in Coleridge scholarship, and at several moments she makes original contributions.” (William A. Ulmer, Review 19,  nbol-19.org, December 2016)

• 1. Introduction: A Character in the Antithetical Manner.- 2. The Return from Germany.- 3. The Morning Post and Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie.- 4. Mothers, Sons, and Poets in the Morning Post.- 5. Homeless at Grieta Hall.- 6. The 1800 Lyrical Ballads, Mary Robinson, and The Mad Monk.- 7. Mary Robinson and the Poet Coleridge.- 8. ‘Merely the Emptying out of my Desk’.- 9. Conclusion: Dejection. An Ode in the Morning Post as a Palimpsest.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-