Mary Coleridge

Mary Coleridge in 1883

Mary Coleridge (23 September 1861 – 25 August 1907) was a British novelist and poet who also wrote essays and reviews.[1] She wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos (a name taken from George MacDonald). Other influences on her were Richard Watson Dixon and Christina Rossetti. Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, described her poems as 'wondrously beautiful… but mystical rather than enigmatical'.[2]

  1. ^ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge – Poems, Biography, Quotes
  2. ^ Phillips, Catherine, 'Robert Bridges' Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992 ISBN 0-19-212251-7