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Creative Writing PhD on the job market | verse, romanticism, postcapitalism | current wips: verse biography of Coleridge; also writing a memoir (sorry) | bsky;)
Nov 24, 2021 14 tweets 3 min read
This is my 'hot take' after studying him for ten years, but I don't think Coleridge was in love with Sara Hutchinson any more than he was in love with opium.

This is a thread Coleridge's "love" for Sara Hutchinson was something that he wrote about later, from a distance. Just as, with the Dejection ode, his wishes for her were coming from the other side of a writing desk, from a distance. Coleridge probably "fell in love" with SH while he was