SOURCE: Chapter X, English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1933, pp. 208-10.

In the following essay, Evans discusses Coleridge's lyric poetry.

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907), who had Samuel Taylor Coleridge among her forebears, published in her lifetime but little poetry, and that under the pseudonym of 'Anodos'. In 1896 Robert Bridges persuaded her to issue a private and limited edition of poems, Fancy's Following, and a modified form of this collection appeared in 1897 as Fancy's Guerdon in one of Elkin Mathews's Shilling Garland Series. The main collection of her verses was made in 1907, after her death, by Sir Henry Newbolt.

Poetry occupied but a small part of her life; she wrote prose romances, some of which, like The King with Two Faces, brought her a wide popularity, and she had many charitable and social activities. There comes through the scanty biographical records and there reappears in...