Eye - 16 August 2013
From discoveries and sing-songs to Q spotting
Discovering Friends
Whilst she lay in an alpine meadow, Lyn Wilson, of Cambridge Hartington Grove Meeting, made an intriguing discovery.
She writes: ‘I was browsing some of Wordsworth’s poems and discovered two published in The Friend in 1809…
‘“The French Revolution” and “The Influence of Natural Objects”; both became part of The Prelude of 1850. The Friend in which they appeared was a “literary, moral, and political weekly paper… conducted by ST Coleridge of Grasmere, Westmorland”. It ran from June 1809 to March 1810.’
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