Norman Fruman, a scholar who roiled literary waters in the 1970s with a biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge that accused the poet of stealing ideas and disingenuously aggrandizing his own creative ...

In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...

There once was a tremendously popular piece of music about a Native American which was written by a composer of African descent whose forbearers had been slaves in the New World prior to the American ...

President Theodore Roosevelt caused a stir 100 years ago by inviting a black composer to the White House. The composer was Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, (1875-1912), the son of a white Englishwoman and a ...

IN the absence of any adequate biography of Coleridge, these two volumes of his letters, 1 edited by his grandson, Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, will be eagerly welcomed. By far the greater part of ...

In honor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who died 174 years ago today, we present to you Kenneth Burke’s 1939 essay lauding Coleridge as a great champion of idealism. Each time I note the signs of the ...

A rare anti-slavery poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is at risk of leaving the UK unless a domestic buyer can be found. The poem, a Greek Sapphic ode titled Ode On The West-Indian Slave Trade, ...