Other nature evangelists get a mention too, such as John Muir and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
In the summer of 2005, Parkside federated with Coleridge Community College, a failing neighbour under threat of closure.
Coleridge wrote a total of two major poems (and collaborated on a third).
Mr Holmes is best known for his masterly biographies of Shelley and Coleridge, but many other ghosts have tempted him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, for example, wrote poetry based on the Bhagavad Gita and paid tribute in person to Coleridge and Carlyle.
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And the real villain, without a doubt, is Wordsworth, who after the breach with Coleridge in 1810 pours down indifference on him from a vast height of self-importance.
Two top jobs, chairman of Lloyd's of London and private secretary to the queen, are held by Etonians (respectively, David Coleridge and Sir Robert Fellowes) who list no other education.
But he has raked up much engaging historic detail that runs from the mutton suet applied to Samuel Coleridge's leather walking-boots to descriptions of mock sea-battles staged on the lakes.
Applications and results at Coleridge are already rising fast.
Mr Holmes even tells you when the writing in the notebooks shows that Coleridge was drunk, or when it suddenly turns red (the poet's pen dipped either in laudanum, or in gout medicine).
The settings, too, are interiors: cramped rooms, generally lent by understanding friends after Coleridge had left his wife and children in the Lake District and decided to become a man of letters in London.
The industrial and French revolutions, which produced anxiety on a vast scale, saw De Quincey on opium, Coleridge on laudanum and Davy, in his chemical laboratory, giggling and whooping helplessly as he sniffed nitrous oxide gas.
The Roycrofters began printing books in 1895, starting with the Song of Songs and the Book of Job, moving on to works by Shakespeare, Coleridge, Emerson, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, to say nothing of Hubbard's own titles.
Coleridge believed (if such a searching and puzzling mind can ever be summed up), that all creation, especially man himself, was suffused with God, and that imagination was a function of the divine power, a recovered memory of a higher state.
She cited Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " with its frozen polar wastes and specters of "Nightmare Life-in-Death, " which as an 8-year-old child she had heard the poet recite in her father's parlor, and she made several dark allusions to the alchemical experiments of Paracelsus and Cornelius Agrippa, two Medieval figures with whom Percy had become obsessed during his studies at Oxford.
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