"In height he might seem to be about five feet eight (he was, in
reality, about an inch and a-half taller, but his figure was of an order
which drowns the height); his person was broad and full, and tended to
corpulence; his complexion was fair; though not what painters technically
style fair, because it was associated with black hair; his eyes were
large, and soft in their expression; and it was from the peculiar
appearance of haze or dreaminess which mixed with their light that I
recognised my object. This was Coleridge."
Resources
We
know what Coleridge looked like, at least in the eyes of his
contemporaries, from the above description written by Thomas De Quincey in
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAKE POETS
(written 1830-40). DeQuincey recollections are not limited to
Coleridge, but also include William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and
Robert Southey.
THE ALFOXDEN JOURNAL
(1798) by Dorothy Wordsworth contains much information of the
lives shared by Coleridge and the Wordsworths.
BLUPETE.COM
- website with timeline and biography of Coleridge
PANDAEMONIUM (2000)
- a fictionalized account of life with Coleridge and the Wordworths,
friendship. Great performances by Linus Roache, John Hannah,
Samantha Morton and Emily Woof as the Coleridges and Wordsworths.
(2000)
- a fictionalized account of life with Coleridge and the Wordworths,
friendship. Great performances by Linus Roache, John Hannah,
Samantha Morton and Emily Woof as the Coleridges and Wordsworths.
