Stuart’s Laureates I 195just around the time Wordsworth and Dorothy move to Grasmere).
Coleridge becomes involved in writing lead articles for the paper just
as Robinson takes over the responsibility for providing poetry. This is,
of course, the period during which Coleridge f lirts with renewing his
Jacobinism, writes articles praising Napoleon and condemning Pitt,
dines with Godwin and other radicals, and, as the story goes, falls a
little in love with Mary Robinson. When Coleridge quit the Morning
Post temporarily for the Lake District and Greta Hall, Robinson was
hard at work filling Stuart’s columns with poems and gathering many
of them for her own Lyrical Tales. When she died at the end of 1800,
this much- heralded yet mysterious position of “poetry editor” went
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