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Coleridge- Darker Reflections

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by Richard Holmes


  27Ibid, 3878

  28Ibid, 4510.

  29Ibid, 3743.

  30Ibid, 3825.

  31Ibid, 3881.

  32Ibid, 3911.

  33Ibid, 3911.

  35Ibid, 3925.

  36S.P., p. 91; P.W. p. 198.

  37Notebooks, III, 3915.

  38Ibid, 3925.

  39Ibid, 3911.

  40Ibid, 3911.

  41Ibid, 3959.

  42Ibid, 3913.

  43Letters, III, pp. 290–1N.

  44Ibid, pp. 291–3.

  45Ibid, p. 294.

  46Notebooks, III, 3952, 3970.

  47Ibid, 3995n; Moorman, II, pp. 191–4.

  48Notebooks, III, 3983.

  49Southey, I, p. 537.

  50Robinson, Books, p. 77.

  51Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, pp. 488–9.

  52Notebooks, III, 3989, 3995.

  53Letters, III, p. 400.

  54Notebooks, III, 3991.

  55Ibid, 3997.

  56Letters, III, p. 382.

  57Ibid, p. 376.

  58Robinson, Books, p. 75.

  59Ibid, p. 77.

  60Notebooks, III, 3999; see Early Visions, p. 330.

  61Ibid, 4001.

  62Letters, III, p. 399.

  63Notebooks, III, 4000.

  64Letters, III, p. 399.

  65Ibid, p. 298.

  66Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 489.

  67Letters, III, p. 298n.

  68Notebooks, III, 4002.

  69Ibid, 3996.

  70Ibid, 4005.

  71Ibid, 4006.

  72Ibid, 4006.

  73Ibid, 3996.

  74Ibid, 4005.

  75Ibid, 4006.

  76Ibid, 4006.

  77S.P., p. 212; P.W., p. 416; see also Notebooks, III, 4106.

  78Notebooks, III, 4013; Letters, III, p. 399.

  Chapter 6: Hamlet in Fleet Street

  1Letters, III, p. 301.

  2Notebooks, III, 4019.

  3Letters, III, p. 399.

  4Lamb, III, pp. 61–2.

  5Southey, I, p. 548.

  6Robinson, Books, p. 17.

  7Ibid, pp. 16–17, 30–34.

  8Notebooks, III, 4016.

  9Ibid, 4017.

  10Robinson, Selections, pp. 33–4.

  11Ibid, pp. 36–40.

  12Ibid, p. 35.

  13Essays, I, p. cxliv.

  14Ibid, p. cxlvi.

  15Roy and Dorothy Porter, Patient’s Progress, 1989, p. 57 and 88.

  16Letters, III, p. 301.

  17Ibid, p. 301.

  18Notebooks, III, 4046.

  19Letters, III, p. 323.

  20Southey, II, pp. 3–4.

  21Ibid, p. 8.

  22Letters, III, p. 302.

  23Ibid, p. 304–5.

  24Ibid, p. 305.

  25Robinson, Selections, p. 38.

  26Wordsworth Love Letters, see below.

  27Letters, III, p. 309.

  28Ibid, p. 323.

  29Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 490.

  30Notebooks, III, 4052.

  31Ibid, 4055.

  32P.W., pp. 16–17.

  33Notebooks, III, 4094.

  34Ibid, 4092.

  35Ibid, 4093.

  36Ibid, 4106; S.P., p. 211; P.W., p. 419.

  37Ibid, 4102.

  38Ibid, 4106.

  39Litters, III, p. 311.

  40Ibid, p. 310.

  41Richard Holmes, Shelley: The Pursuit, 1974, HarperCollins, 1994 Chapter 2.

  42Essays, II, p. 121.

  43Ibid, pp. 198–9.

  44Ibid, pp. 140–1.

  45Robinson, Books, p. 32.

  46Robinson, Letters, I, p. 66.

  47William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age, 1825.

  48Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 495.

  49Letters, III, p. 319.

  50Ibid, p. 333.

  51Minnow, p. 14.

  52Letters, III, p. 327.

  53Ibid, p. 325.

  54Letters, IV, p. 797.

  55Essays, II, pp. 213, 314.

  56Essays, I, p. clxv.

  57Letters, III, p. 334.

  58Essays, II, p. 186.

  59Robinson, Books, pp. 34–5.

  60Ibid, p. 37.

  61Essays, II, pp. 220–35.

  62Letters, III, p. 334 and note.

  63Robinson, Books, p. 37.

  64Essays, II, p. 247n.

  65Ibid, p. 247n.

  66Hutchinson, Letters, pp. 26–37.

  67Talker, p. 153.

  68Table Talk, 1835.

  69Talker, pp. 154–8.

  70Ibid, pp. 158–60.

  71Ibid, pp. 154, 160.

  72Notebooks, III, 4070.

  73Ibid, 4081n.

  74Ibid, 4069.

  75Ibid, 4072.

  76Notebooks, III, 4073–4; S.P., p. 214; P.W., pp. 429–31.

  77Notebooks, III, 3684.

  78Ibid, 4076.

  79Jean-Paul Richter, Geist, 1801, no. 386.

  80Ibid, no. 4.

  81Notebooks, III, 4088.

  82Geist, no. 4; Notebooks, III, 4088n.

  83Notebooks, III, 4088.

  84Ibid, 4061.

  85Ibid, 4086n.

  86Ibid, 4087n.

  87Letters, III, p. 340n.

  88Lamb, ‘On the Genius and Character of Hogarth’, 1811.

  89Notebooks, III, 4096.

  90S.P., pp. 258–9.

  91Robinson, Books, p. 41.

  92Letters, III, p. 336.

  93Essays, II, p. 318.

  94Ibid, p. 306.

  95Talker, pp. 167–8.

  96Ibid, p. 43.

  97Ibid, p. 47.

  98Ibid, pp. 47–8.

  99Ibid, p. 49.

  100Letters, III, pp. 137–8.

  101Ibid, p. 338.

  102Ibid, p. 338.

  103Ibid, pp. 338–9.

  104Ibid, p. 337.

  105Ibid, p. 377.

  106Ibid, p. 377.

  107Lamb, III, p. 74.

  108Southey, II, p. 68.

  109Letters, III, p. 369.

  110Letters, III, p. 363–4.

  111Ibid, p. 349.

  112Ibid, p. 342.

  113Literary Lectures, I, p. 179.

  114Southey, II, p. 12.

  115Letters, III, p. 343.

  116Ibid, p. 346.

  117Ibid, p. 348n.

  118Ibid, p. 347.

  119Literary Lectures, I, p. 195.

  120Ibid, pp. 190, 196.

  121Ibid, p. 203.

  122Ibid, p. 209.

  123Ibid, p. 209.

  124Ibid, p. 212.

  125Robinson, Books, p. 52.

  126Ibid, p. 52.

  127Literary Lectures, I, p. 221.

  128Ibid, p. 222.

  129Ibid, p. 222.

  130Ibid, p. 223.

  131Ibid, p. 224.

  132Ibid, p. 225.

  133Ibid, p. 257.

  134Ibid, p. 259.

  135Ibid, pp. 232–3.

  136Ibid, p. 316.

  137Ibid, p. 307.

  138Ibid, p. 308.

  139Ibid, p. 293.

  140Ibid, p. 295.

  141Ibid, p. 287.

  142Ibid, p. 291.

  143Ibid, p. 304.

  144Ibid, p. 327.

  145Ibid, p. 283.

  146Robinson, Books, p. 54.

  147Literary Lectures, I, p. 333.

  148Robinson, Books, p. 55.

  149Byron, Letters and Journals, 12 vols, edited by Leslie A. Marchand, Murray, 1973–94, II, pp. 140, 147.

  150Letters, III, p. 352.

  151Literary Lectures, I, p. 409.

  152Letters, III, p. 359.

  153Literary Lectures, pp. 113–8.

  154Letters, III, p. 360.

  155Literary Lectures, I, p. 345.

  156Ibid, p. 345.

  157Ibid, pp. 353–4.

  158Ibid, p. 354.

  159Robinson, Books, p. 63.

  160Literary Lectures, I, p. 358
.

  161Shakespearean Criticism, I, p. 197.

  162see Early Visions, pp. 325–7.

  163Notebooks, II, 2444.

  164Literary Lectures, pp. 364–5.

  165Ibid, p. 367.

  166see Early Visions, pp. 231–2; 334– 5.

  167Robinson, Books, p. 57.

  168My reconstruction uses an amalgam of texts, notes, and reports from Literary Lectures, I, Lecture No. 12; and Shakespearean Criticism, I, ‘Hamlet’.

  169Lectures of Schlegel on Dramatic Art and Literature, translated by John Black, London, 1815, II, pp. 194–6.

  170Hamlet, Signet Classics.

  171Literary Lectures, p. 386.

  172Shakespearean Criticism, I, p. 23.

  173Ibid, p. 30.

  174Ibid, p. 20.

  175Literary Lectures, I, p. 387.

  176Shakespearean Criticism, I, p. 36.

  177Literary Lectures, I, pp. 386, 388.

  178Shakespearean Criticism, I, p. 26.

  179Ibid, p. 35.

  180Ibid, p. 34.

  181Literary Lectures, I, p. 391.

  182Table Talk, II, p. 61 (June 1827).

  183Literary Lectures, I, p. 401.

  184Ibid, p. 407.

  Chapter 7: Phantom Purposes

  1Letters, III, pp. 364, 366.

  2Ibid, p. 365.

  3Ibid, p. 366.

  4Ibid, p. 377.

  5Ibid, pp. 367–9.

  6Ibid, p. 367.

  7Ibid, p. 371.

  8Ibid, p. 372.

  9Ibid, p. 370.

  10Ibid, p. 380.

  11Ibid, p. 375.

  12Minnow, p. 16.

  13Letters, III, p. 380.

  14Ibid, p. 380.

  15Ibid, p. 383n.

  16Ibid,p. 383.

  17Minnow, p. 16.

  18Hutchinson, pp. 45–6.

  19Letters, III, p. 376.

  20see Early Visions, pp. 106–7.

  21Ibid, pp. 94–116.

  22Letters, III, p. 375.

  23Wordsworth, Middle Years, II, p. 496.

  24Letters, III, p. 385.

  25Letters, III, p. 377.

  26Minnow, pp. 16–17.

  27Molly Lefubure The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs S. T. Coleridge, Gollancz, 1986, p. 202.

  28Letters, III, p. 381.

  29Robinson, Letters, I, p. 68; Letters, III, p. 382n.

  30Notebooks, III, 4148n.

  31Ibid, p. 4149; S.P., p. 253; P.W., pp. 514–5.

  32Letters, III p. 383.

  33Ibid, p. 384.

  34Ibid, p. 388.

  35Ibid, p. 385.

  36Ibid, p. 389.

  37Wordsworth, Love Letters, p. 109.

  38Ibid, p. 124.

  39Ibid, p. 125.

  40Letters, III, p. 403.

  41Ibid, p. 395.

  42Ibid, p. 394.

  43Ibid, pp. 395–6n, 398n.

  44Ibid, p. 402.

  45Ibid, p. 397n.

  46Ibid, p. 394.

  47Wordsworth, Middle Years, II, p. 498.

  48Ibid, p. 496.

  49Ibid, p. 486.

  50Robinson, Letters, p. 70.

  51Robinson, Books, pp. 73–7.

  52Wordsworth, Love Letters, p. 136.

  53Robinson, Books, p. 77.

  54Ibid, p. 78.

  55Ibid, p. 79.

  56Wordsworth, Love Letters, pp. 139–40.

  57Robinson, Books, p. 80.

  58Letters, V, pp. 249–50.

  59Letters, III, p. 407.

  60 Ibid, pp. 437–8.

  61Minnow, p. 16.

  62Wordsworth, Love Letters, p. 215.

  63Ibid, p. 148.

  64Ibid, p. 134.

  65Ibid, p. 157.

  66Ibid, p. 142.

  67Ibid, p. 142.

  68Ibid, p. 143; see Early Visions, p. 138.

  69Wordsworth, Love Letters, p. 148.

  70Essays, II, pp. 347–8.

  71Letters, III, p. 410.

  72Ibid, p. 410.

  73Letters, pp. 413–4.

  74Church and State, 1829.

  75Letters, III, p. 414.

  76Notebooks, III, 4154.

  77Letters, III, p. 387.

  78Robinson, Books, pp. 87–8.

  79Literary Lectures, I, p. 475.

  80Letters, III, p. 387.

  81Robinson, Books, pp. 87–8.

  82Wordsworth, Love Letters, pp. 210–15.

  83Robinson, Books, p. 83.

  84Wordsworth, Love Letters, p. 163.

  85Robinson, Books, p. 83.

  86Lamb, III, p. 160.

  87Wordsworth, Love Letters, pp. 242–3.

  88Wordsworth, Middle Years, II, p. 557.

  89Letters, III, p. 416.

  90Ibid, p. 415.

  91Notebooks, III, 4172.

  92Ibid, 4164.

  93Ibid, 4168.

  94S.P., p. 210; P.W., pp. 419–20 as ‘Time, Real and Imaginary’.

  95Shorter Works, I, pp. 285–7.

  96Minnow, p. 18.

  97Letters, III, pp. 418–19.

  98Ibid, p. 419.

  99Ibid, p. 420.

  100Ibid, p. 446.

  101Robinson, Books, p. 113.

  102Ibid, pp. 117–8.

  103Literary Lectures, I, p. 488.

  104Letters, III, p. 430.

  105Literary Lectures, I, pp. 492–3.

  106Lectures of Schlegel, translated John Black, op. cit., second edition, London, 1840, II, p. 97.

  107Literary Lectures, I, p. 494.

  108Robinson, Books, p. 112.

  109R. M. Fletcher, English Romantic Drama 1795–1843, New York, 1966, pp. 70–2.

  110Robinson, Books, p. 112.

  111Complete Poetical Works, II, p. 1114.

  112Ibid, p. 1114.

  113Ibid, p. 518.

  114Ibid, pp. 859–60.

  115Letters, III, p. 428.

  116Complete Poetical Works, II, p. 820.

  117Ibid, p. 867.

  118Ibid, p. 856.

  119Letters, III, p. 420n.

  120Moormon, II, p. 246; Lamb, III, p. 86.

  121Letters, III, p. 421.

  122Ibid, pp. 421–2n.

  123Heritage, p. 130.

  124Letters, III, p. 428.

  125Ibid, p. 426.

  126Ibid, p. 429.

  127Ibid, p. 434.

  128Ibid, pp. 436–7; Shorter Works, I, p. 290.

  129Complete Poetical Works, II, p. 555n.

  130S.P., p. 254; P.W., p. 420; Complete Poetical Works, II, p. 849.

  131Heritage, p. 138.

  132Letters, III, p. 424.

  133Ibid, p. 424–5.

  134Ibid, p. 423.

  135Ibid, p. 424.

  136Wordsworth, Middle Years, II, p. 526.

  137Moorman, II, p. 228–9.

  138Heritage, p. 145.

  139Letters, III, p. 430–1.

  140Robinson, Books, p. 117.

  141Letters, III, p. 430.

  142Ibid, p. 431.

  143Ibid, p. 431.

  144Ibid, p. 430; Robinson, Books, p. 118.

  145Heritage, p. 132.

  146Letters, III, p. 438.

  147Ibid, p. 437.

  148Robinson, Books, p. 128.

  149Letters, III, pp. 436–7.

  150Ibid, p. 431.

  151Leigh Hunt, Dramatic Criticism 1808–1831, edited by L. H. Houtchens, 1950, p. 103.

  152Southey, II, p. 49.

  153Ibid, p. 43.

  154Robinson, Letters, p. 75.

  155Robinson, Books, p. 119.

  156Robinson, Letters, p. 73.

  157Robinson, Books, pp. 119–28.

  158P.W., p. 311.

  159Southey, II, p. 49.

  160Chambers, p. 259.

  161Wordsworth, Middle Years, II, p. 557.

  162Letters, III, pp. 439–40.

  163Ibid, p. 440.

  164Ibid, p. 441.

  165Ibid, p. 442.

  166Wordsworth, Middle Years, II, p. 565.
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  167Letters, III, pp. 442n, 455.

  168Ibid, p. 442n.

  169Ibid, p. 442.

  170Ibid p. 442.

  171Ibid, p. 443.

  172Ibid, p. 444.

  173Literary Lectures, I, p. 533.

 

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