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Sara Coleridge : Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children

‘I am quite delighted with the sweet little one’s [Sara Coleridge’s] sweet little book. It is such an image of the tiny self - not perhaps as married life, and alas, sickness and sorrow have made her now, but as she was in those happy years when her Idea was shaped in my heart ... The [dedicatory] Sonnet is exquisitely pathetic. Of the pretty poems I think I like those best which relate to natural History. The little Fables are charming, and have tended to reconcile me to a sort of composition for which I had before something like an antipathy...’

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge      Print: Book

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