Conversation poems
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The conversation poems are a group of at least eight poems composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge between 1795 and 1807. Each details a particular life experience which led to the poet's examination of n
Samuel Taylor Coleridge portrayed by Washington Allston in 1814
Portrait of Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge portrait
John Thelwall
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John Thelwall was a radical British orator, writer, political reformer, journalist, poet, elocutionist and speech therapist.
Conversation poems
…still roaring dell, of which I told; —"This Lime-Tree Bower" (lines 1–9) During summer 1797, Coleridge spent time with many of his friends, including John Thelwall, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Thomas Poole, and his wife Sara Fricker. During this time, he suffered an accident in which his foot was…
Thelwall, depicted by John Hazlitt prior to 1830. From the collections of the National Portrait Gallery
"Copenhagen house" (1795) by James Gillray, depicting Thelwall
John Thelwall, aged 32, from John Baxter's A new and impartial history of England, 1796