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Professor Kathleen Hazel Coburn (September 7 1905 – 1991) was a Canadian
Canada

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 academic and a leading authority on the poet
Poet

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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
.

Born in Stayner, Ontario
Clearview, Ontario

Clearview is a township in central Ontario, Canada, west of Barrie, Ontario and south of Collingwood, Ontario and Wasaga Beach, Ontario in Simcoe County, Ontario....
, a fourth generation Canadian
Canada

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 of Scottish
Scotland

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–Irish
Ireland

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 descent, Coburn was one of six children born to John Coburn, a Methodist
Methodism

Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by John Wesley and his younger brother Charles Wesley that sought to keep Methodism as a Revivalism movement within the Church of England....
 minister, and Susannah Wesley Emerson, Coburn was educated at Harbord Collegiate Institute
Harbord Collegiate Institute

Harbord Collegiate Institute is a public secondary school located in downtown Toronto, Canada. Specifically, the school is located in the Palmerston-Little Italy/The Annex neighbourhood, situated on the northern side of Harbord Street, between Euclid Ave....
 in Toronto
Toronto

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, Canada
Canada

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 and later studied at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto

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, taking a BA
Bachelor of Arts

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 in 1928 and an MA
Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 in 1930.






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Professor Kathleen Hazel Coburn (September 7 1905 – 1991) was a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 academic and a leading authority on the poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
.

Born in Stayner, Ontario
Clearview, Ontario

Clearview is a township in central Ontario, Canada, west of Barrie, Ontario and south of Collingwood, Ontario and Wasaga Beach, Ontario in Simcoe County, Ontario....
, a fourth generation Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 of Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
–Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 descent, Coburn was one of six children born to John Coburn, a Methodist
Methodism

Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by John Wesley and his younger brother Charles Wesley that sought to keep Methodism as a Revivalism movement within the Church of England....
 minister, and Susannah Wesley Emerson, Coburn was educated at Harbord Collegiate Institute
Harbord Collegiate Institute

Harbord Collegiate Institute is a public secondary school located in downtown Toronto, Canada. Specifically, the school is located in the Palmerston-Little Italy/The Annex neighbourhood, situated on the northern side of Harbord Street, between Euclid Ave....
 in Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 and later studied at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public university research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated a mile north of the city's Financial District, Toronto on grounds that surround Queen's Park ....
, taking a BA
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 in 1928 and an MA
Master of Arts (postgraduate)

A Master of Arts is a Postgraduate education academic degree master degree awarded by University in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in English language, Fine Arts, History, Humanities, Philosophy, Social Sciences or Theology and can be either fully-taught, research-based, or a combination of the two....
 in 1930. Having been awarded an Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire War Memorial Scholarship (IODE) to Oxford in 1930, she obtained a B.Litt from St. Hugh's College, Oxford in 1932.

In 1930 the 25 year-old Coburn visited The Chanter's House at Ottery St Mary
Ottery St Mary

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 in Devon, which had been the home of the Coleridge family
Baron Coleridge

Baron Coleridge, of Ottery St Mary in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1874 for Sir John Coleridge, a prominent lawyer, judge and Liberal Party politician....
 for centuries. Here she discovered an extensive archive of documents written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
. Lord Geoffrey Coleridge
Geoffrey Duke Coleridge, 3rd Baron Coleridge

Geoffrey Duke Coleridge, 3rd Baron Coleridge of Ottery St Mary was responsible for making the archive of his ancestor the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge available to researchers for the first time....
 gave her unlimited access to this archive, and allowed her to have it photographed and the copies placed in the British Museum
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 for the benefit of future scholars. He also granted her permission to edit and publish Coleridge's Notebooks, which she edited from 1957 to 1990.

In 1949 Coburn was instrumental in negotiating the sale of this Chanter's House archive to the British Museum
British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than 7 million Object , are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present....
 for £10,200, with a donation from the Pilgrim Trust. The collection was eventually deposited with the British Museum in May 1951.

Coburn spent her entire academic career at Victoria College
Victoria College, British Columbia

Victoria College was a two-year college in Victoria, British Columbia founded in 1903 with sponsorship from McGill University. It was one of the first post-secondary institutions in British Columbia....
 in the University of Toronto, firstly for four years as Assistant to the Dean of Women before joining the English Department in 1936, becoming Professor in 1953 until her retirement in 1971. She received a Leverhulme Award in 1948, a Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship

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 in 1953, was made a Fellow
Fellow

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 of the Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Canada

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 in 1957, an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford
St Hugh's College, Oxford

St Hugh's College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford, England, located on St Margaret's Road, North Oxford....
 in 1970, an Officer of the Order of Canada
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 in 1974, an Hon.D.Litt. of the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge

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 in 1975, and an honorary Doctorate
Honorary degree

An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa is an academic degree for which a university has waived the usual requirements . The degree itself is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the institution in question....
 from the University of Toronto in 1978 in recognition of her achievement in the field of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
 research and study. In 1979 she was awarded the Pierre Chauveau Medal
Pierre Chauveau Medal

The Pierre Chauveau Medal is an award of the Royal Society of Canada "for a distinguished contribution to knowledge in the humanities other than Canadian literature and Canadian history"....
 by the Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Canada

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 and the Rosemary Crawshay Prize in 1990.

Coburn made a bequest to Victoria College to set up 'Coburn Fellowships' where up to three Fellowships a year valued at $20,000 are awarded to Canadian and Israeli
Israel

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 students who are studying in the fields of Fine Art
Fine art

Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility. This type of art is often expressed in the production of art objects using Visual arts and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture, photography and printmaking....
 or Humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
. The E. J. Pratt Library
E. J. Pratt Library

The E. J. Pratt Library is the library of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. The library, located at the south end of the Victoria College Quad, was built in 1961....
 in the Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Victoria University in the University of Toronto

Victoria University is a federated school of the University of Toronto, consisting of Victoria College and Emmanuel College, Toronto. Victoria University is somewhat separated from the rest of the university geographically, bordering Queen's Park , and being located on the eastern portion of the campus along with St....
 has the Kathleen Coburn Reading Room, which is dedicated to Coburn's memory.

Coburn published her autobiography
Autobiography

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, 'In Pursuit of Coleridge' , in 1977. She died in Toronto, Ontario in 1991.

Publications

  • Coburn, Kathleen. 'Coleridge; A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1967
  • Experience into Thought: Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979
  • The Grandmothers. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1949
  • In Pursuit of Coleridge. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1977
  • The Self Conscious Imagination: A Study of the Coleridge Notebooks in Celebration of the Bi-centenary of his Birth 21 October 1772. London: Oxford University Press, 1974
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. General ed., Kathleen Coburn. London: Routledge and K. Paul; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969
  • Inquiring Spirit: A New Presentation of Coleridge from his Published and Unpublished Prose Writings. Ed. Kathleen Coburn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979
  • Notebooks. Ed. Kathleen Coburn. New York: Pantheon Books, 1957-1990
  • Hutchinson, Sara. Letters from 1800-1835. Ed. Kathleen Coburn. London: Routledge & Paul, 1954


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