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.

ECONOMIST: A green mythology

Much of Coleridge's writing has worn badly.

ECONOMIST: English poets

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.

WSJ: Book Review: The Lady and Her Monsters

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).

ECONOMIST: English poets

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.

FORBES: Magazine Article

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.

ECONOMIST: From the archive