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As the long-standing managing director of British media company Condé Nast – among many other titles – Nicholas Coleridge has a wealth of celebrity stories up his sleeves. The former President of Conde Nast International spent 30 years at the top of the business, assembling more than 100 titles, as well as countless A-lister encounters which he shared … Read more
Pottering poetically: Following in the footsteps of our hike-loving literary giants in Somerset’s beautiful Quantock Hills and across Exmoor (via a few good pubs, of course) Coleridge and Wordsworth spent time galumphing around the Quantock Hills in Somerset in the 18th century The Daily Mail’s Ed Cumming traced the Romantic poets’ steps on a four-day, … Read more
‘I saw snakes as I went loonier and loonier during coronavirus hallucinations’ says V&A Museum director Nicholas Coleridge as he reveals his family were told to prepare for the worst as he fought for his life in intensive care Nicholas Coleridge said he was met with snake visions during Covid-19 battle Also said he saw images … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK RADICAL WORDSWORTH by Jonathan Bate (William Collins, £25, 608 pp) The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, Dorothy. Two days later, Coleridge bolted from the house. Taking refuge in the … Read more
For just over a year, two of the greatest poets in the English language lived within a few miles of one another, in the Quantock Hills in Somerset. They were both bristling with energy. William Wordsworth, aged 27, had once walked 3,000 miles through France and Switzerland. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three years his junior, thought … Read more