Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ A close friend of Coleridge, he was deeply read in Spinoza, Berkeley, Kant and Schelling and developed an Idealist interpretation of Swedenborg which found little favour with some of his fellow Swedenborgians. In later life he became acquainted with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning and introduced them to Swedenborg's Conjugial Love. ”

“ The figure, however, of the second leaf (abstracted from the expression of the countenance given it by something about the mouth, and the interspace from the lower lip to the chin) , is such as only a Master learned in his art could produce. ”

“ Notes ↑ Charles Augustus Tulk (1786-1849) was a leading early English Swedenborgian and a founder member and chairman for many years of the Swedenborg Society; a friend and patron of John Flaxman, another founder member of the Society and also of William Blake, whose Songs of Innocence and Experience he was the first to introduce to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His essay on Blake in the London University Magazine (1830) is one of the earliest appreciations of Blake's genius. ”