tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post8834051129033918914..comments2024-02-29T02:37:34.896-06:00Comments on Ivebeenreadinglately: "Coleridge was to prove a dangerous companion for the high-strung."Levi Stahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-28075312693534066882009-05-20T14:07:04.387-05:002009-05-20T14:07:04.387-05:00By all accounts, Coleridge seems to have been a pe...By all accounts, Coleridge seems to have been a person quite a few others ought to have avoided because of his singular (and what I would generously call his egocentric and less generously call his parasitic) personality. Robert Southey and William Wordsworth, as examples, both benefitted and suffered from their friendship with Coleridge, but I think in both cases the negatives outweighed the positives.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-15951307234362686202009-05-19T13:03:00.000-05:002009-05-19T13:03:00.000-05:00LOVE this post, Levi. That's an inspired conne...LOVE this post, Levi. That's an inspired connection you make betwn Lamb & Walser; makes so much sense that I don't even know how I could have missed it.sdhttp://selfdivider.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-48280733691796767722009-05-19T09:20:00.000-05:002009-05-19T09:20:00.000-05:00Kurp's right; Lamb's best Elias essays are unique....Kurp's right; Lamb's best Elias essays are unique. His voice and interests are more idiosyncratic than Hazlitt's.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.com