The Essays
De Quincey wrote about the figures of the "Lake School," especially Wordsworth and Coleridge, repeatedly throughout his canon. The essays that make up the collection are primarily these (each year links to its corresponding " in poetry" article):
- "Samuel Taylor Coleridge," Tait's Magazine, September through November 1834 and January 1835
- "A Letter to William Wordsworth," August 1835
- "William Wordsworth," January, February, and April 1839
- "William Wordsworth and Robert Southey," July 1839
- "Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge," August 1839
- "Recollections of Grasmere," September 1839
- "The Saracen's Head," December 1839
- "Westmoreland and the Dalesmen," January 1840
- "Society of the Lakes, I, II, and III," January, March, and June 1840
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