Show POET NOT YET FORGOTTEN friends of coleridge place memorial Me moriat in church where once he aspired to preach Cole ridges query to Lamb Charlea Charles did you ever hear bear me pres preach ch and ellas elias famous answer 1 I never heard you do anything else must have been in the minds of the little company which assembled the other day in the high street unitarian church at shrewsbury england lor for tile the unveiling of a memorial tv tu tho the poet in commemoration me of the fact that for three sundays in 1789 he preached there a as a a candidate for the pastorate one 0 of f his auditors on one of 0 those sundays was william hazlitt hazeltt tt who has left on record that the manner of 0 the preacher was like an eagle dallying with the wind whether the regular members of the congregation were equally impressed la is not on record but they were not called upon to express their views by i voting for an offer of a pen sion elon of a hundred and fifty pounds a year decided coleridge to withdraw from his candidature that so slight an event in the poets baeta life has now been commemorated would seem seed to I 1 indicate rl a revival of interest in h bis is work it if that should prove to be the case perhaps something idill be done to do fit honor to the somewhat squalid surroundings a 0 hla his tomb at high gate bale I bodon mall |