Eye - 16 August 2013

From discoveries and sing-songs to Q spotting

by Eye 16th August 2013

Discovering Friends

Whilst she lay in an alpine meadow, Lyn Wilson, of Cambridge Hartington Grove Meeting, made an intriguing discovery.

She writes: ‘I was browsing some of Wordsworth’s poems and discovered two published in The Friend in 1809…

‘“The French Revolution” and “The Influence of Natural Objects”; both became part of The Prelude of 1850. The Friend in which they appeared was a “literary, moral, and political weekly paper… conducted by ST Coleridge of Grasmere, Westmorland”. It ran from June 1809 to March 1810.’