SOURCE: "Mary Coleridge," in The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, M.A., The Macmillan Company, 1925, pp. 614-5.

In the following essay, Binyon praises Coleridge's "lyric art."

No one was ever less of a professional poet than Mary Coleridge. She was writing verse for twenty-five years, but the greater part of her poems were never printed in her lifetime, and she refused to publish under her own name. Yet assuredly her place is secure among the lyric poets of England. Perhaps just because they were produced with so little thought of the public, her poems have a fresh directness and intimacy which few lyrists attain so perfectly. They were the spontaneous overflow of her spirit; and that spirit was one of rare gift and charm. The most obviously striking characteristic of Mary Coleridge's nature was the combination of unusual depth with unusual vivacity. She was quick to...