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  148Ibid, 4409.

  149Letters, IV, pp. 833–4.

  150Ibid, pp. 836–7.

  151Ibid, p. 842.

  152Ibid, p. 865.

  153Ibid, p. 857N.

  154Ibid, p. 855.

  155Ibid, p. 853.

  156Ibid, p. 854.

  157Ibid, p. 856.

  158Essays, II, p. 488.

  159Shorter Works, I, pp. 719, 723.

  160Ibid, pp. 731–8.

  161J.L. and B. Hammond, The Town Labourer, 1917, revised edition 1978, Chapter 8.

  162Notebooks, III, 4482.

  163Keats, Letters, p. 313 (18 September 1819).

  164Letters, IV, pp. 866–7.

  165Shorter Works, I, pp. 758–61.

  166Ibid, p. 760.

  167Ibid, p. 761.

  168Ibid, pp. 510–12. For a further exploration see ‘Coleridge’s “A Light in Sound”: Science, Metascience and Poetic Imagination’, in The Correspondent Breeze by M. H. Abrams, Norton NY, 1984; and Trevor Levere (see Bibliography).

  169Letters, IV, pp. 867–9

  170Ibid, p. 870. For Novalis, Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), see Penelope Fitzgerald’s wonderful novel The Blue Flower, Flamingo, 1996.

  171Ibid, p. 870.

  172Charles Lamb, ‘Dedication’ to Collected Works, 2 vols, London, 1818.

  173Friend, I, p. 4.

  174Ibid, pp. 332, 334N; Early Visions, pp. 105–6.

  175Letters, IV, p. 925.

  176Friend, I, p. 448.

  177Ibid, p. 473.

  178Ibid, pp. 457, 473, 476.

  179Ibid, p. 451.

  180Ibid, pp. 450–3.

  181Ibid, p. 466.

  182Ibid, p. 492.

  183Ibid, p. 495.

  184Ibid, pp. 496–7.

  185Ibid, p. 500.

  186For an affectionate account of Sterling, Hare, Maurice and their circle of ‘Coleridgeans’, see J. S. Mill, ‘A Crisis in My Mental History’, in Autobiography, 1873.

  187J. S. Mill, On Bentham and Coleridge, edited by F. R. Leavis, 1950, pp. 129–30.

  188Friend, I, p. cv.

  189Ibid, p. ciii; F. D. Maurice, The Kingdom of Christ, 1842, ‘Dedication’ to Derwent Coleridge.

  190Butler, Peacock Displayed, op. cit., p. 109.

  191Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, 1818, Chapter 8; Complete Novels, op. cit., I, pp. 395–6.

  192Ibid, p. 397.

  193Letters, IV, p. 878.

  194Ibid, p. 891.

  195Minnow, pp. 67, 75.

  196Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, 1851. Talker, p. 113.

  Chapter 10: Magic Children

  1Letters, IV, p. 881N; Philosophical Lectures, pp. 66–69.

  2Letters, IV, p. 917.

  3Ibid, p. 889.

  4Ibid, p. 882.

  5Notebooks, III, 4468.

  6Philosophical Lectures, ‘Prospectus’, p. 67.

  7Ibid, p. 211.

  8Ibid, p. 285.

  9Ibid, pp. 355–60; see Chapter 9, reference 58.

  10Ibid, pp. 305–6.

  11Letters, IV, p. 890.

  12Philosophical Lectures, p. 185.

  13Ibid, p. 320.

  14Ibid. p. 263.

  15Ibid. p. 186–8.

  16Notebooks, III, 4504.

  17Philosophical Lectures, p. 398.

  18Ibid, p. 394.

  19Ibid, p. 394.

  20Ibid, p. 179.

  21Ibid, pp. 394–5.

  22S.P., p. 24; P.W., p. 429.

  23Letters, IV, pp. 905–6.

  24Ibid, p. 909.

  25Ibid, p. 908.

  26Keats, Letters, p. 228 (19 March 1819).

  27Letters, IV, p. 940.

  28Table Talk, II, pp. 186–7.

  29Keats, Letters, p. 237 (15 April 1819).

  30Ibid, p. 239.

  31Ibid, pp. 239–40. ‘A Dream’, after reading Dante’s ‘Episode of Paolo and Francesca’, in John Keats: The Complete Poems, edited by John Barnard, Penguin, 1973, p. 333.

  32S.P., p. 124; P.W., p. 333.

  33Letters, IV, p. 942.

  34Letters, VI, p. 322.

  35Table Talk, I, pp. 325–6N.

  36‘The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream’, 1819, Canto 1, line 18, John Keats: The Complete Poems, op, cit., p. 435.

  37Table Talk, II, p. 313.

  38S.P., p. xxxiii.

  39Letters, IV, p. 938.

  40Notebooks, IV, 4537.

  41Ibid, 4537.

  42Letters, IV, p. 977.

  43Ibid, p. 977.

  44Notebooks, IV, 4606.

  45Ibid, 4550, 4604.

  46Ibid, 4632.

  47Ibid, 4547.

  48Letters, IV, p. 947N.

  49Ibid, p. 947N.

  50Ibid, pp. 953–4.

  51Notebooks, IV, 4608, 4623.

  52Letters, IV, p. 946.

  53S.P., p. 215; P.W. pp. 439–40.

  54Letters, p. 956.

  55Ibid, p. 940.

  56Ibid, p. 940.

  57Letters, V, p. 346N.

  58Heritage, pp. 436–51.

  59Letters, VI, p. 946.

  60Letters, V, p. 79.

  61Shorter Works, II, p. 1252.

  62Minnow, pp. 81–4.

  63Letters, V, pp. 38–9.

  64Ibid, pp. 45–6.

  65Ibid, p. 36.

  66Ibid, p. 68.

  67Ibid, p. 80.

  68Ibid, pp. 83, 85.

  69Hartley, p. lxxv.

  70Letters, V, p. 80.

  71Ibid, p. 83.

  72Ibid, p. 80.

  73Ibid, p. 69.

  74Ibid, p. 64.

  75Ibid, p. 63.

  76Ibid, p. 71.

  77Ibid, p. 77.

  78Ibid, p. 70.

  79Ibid, pp. 103–6.

  80Ibid, p. 108.

  81Ibid, p. 110.

  82Ibid, pp. 114–5.

  83Ibid, pp. 110–11.

  84Ibid, p. 117N.

  85Ibid, p. 76.

  86Ibid, p. 251.

  87Ibid, pp. 120–23.

  88Notebooks, IV, 4714.

  89Letters, V, p. 119.

  90Notebooks, IV, 4771. Published posthumously as Logic, edited by J. R. de J. Jackson, Bollinger Series, Princeton University Press and Routledge, 1981.

  91Early Visions, p. 27.

  92Letters, V, p. 119.

  93Ibid, p. 143.

  94Ibid, pp. 149–50.

  95Ibid, p. 149N.

  96Hartley, p. xci; Letters, V, p. 148.

  97Hartley, p.lxxxiv.

  98Letters, V, p. 160

  99Ibid, p. 153.

  100Ibid, p. 145–8.

  101Letters, VI, p. 720.

  102Notebooks, IV, 4788, 4789.

  103Letters, V, p. 362.

  104‘Notes Respecting the Late S. T. Coleridge by Seymour Porter’, published in ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Opium’, by E. L. Griggs, Huntingdon Library Quarterly, 1954.

  105Letters, V, pp. 171–3N.

  106Ibid, p. 185.

  107Ibid, p. 189.

  108S.P., p. 23; P.W. p. 435.

  109Nigel Leask, The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Thought, 1988, pp. 147, 201.

  110Letters, V, p. 192.

  111Ibid, p. 201–3.

  112Ibid, p. 203N.

  113Ibid, p. 204.

  114Shorter Works II, pp. 1008–32.

  115Letters, V, p. 200.

  116Morton N. Cohen, Lewis Carroll, 1995, pp. 223–6; and passim Chapter 4 and 11.

  117Letters, V, p. 209.

  118Ibid, pp. 231–3.

  119Ibid, p. 240–1.

  120Early Visions, p. 54–5.

  121Notebooks, IV, 4903, 4905.

  122Letters, V, p. 245.

  123Ibid, p. 251.

  124Ibid, pp. 254–5.

  125S.P., pp. 208–9; P.W., pp. 457–8.

  Chapter 11: Glide, Rich Streams, Away!

  1Letters, V, p. 239.

  2Ibid, p. 249–51.

  3Ibid, p. 257.

  4So
uthey, II, p. 257.

  5Hartley Coleridge, Letters, edited by E. L. Griggs, 1941, p. 32.

  6Lefebure, The Bondage of Love, op. cit., p. 240.

  7Heritage, pp. 468–9.

  8Ibid, p. 475.

  9Bradford Keyes Mudge, Sara Coleridge: A Victorian Daughter, 1989, p. 26.

  10Table Talk, I, pp. 25–39.

  11Mudge, op. cit., p. 30.

  12Letters, VI, p. 589.

  13Ibid, pp. 590–91.

  14 Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library, III, 1888.

  15Mudge, op. cit., p. 99.

  16The Letters of Charles Lamb, 3 vols, edited by E.V. Lucas, 1935, II, p. 376–7.

  17Robinson, Books, p. 289–90; The Letters of Charles Lamb, Lucas, op. cit., II, p. 468.

  18Notebooks, IV, 4993, 4996.

  19Ibid, 4994.

  20S.P., pp. 215–6; P.W., pp. 440–1.

  21Notebooks, IV, 5032.

  22Letters, V, pp. 290–1.

  23Notebooks, IV, 5026; Aids, pp. 106–7.

  24Mill On Bentham and Coleridge, op. cit., p. 113.

  25Aids, p. 241.

  26Ibid, pp. 117–8.

  27Ibid, p. 248.

  28Highgate Institution Archive, numerous drawings of Coleridge’s study and back garden. Described in Coleridge at Highgate, Lucy Watson, 1925.

  29Early Visions, p. 277.

  30Lucy Watson, op. cit., p. 52.

  31Letters, V, p. 317.

  32Ibid, p. 317.

  33Ibid, p. 342.

  34Ibid, p. 346N.

  35‘Notes…by Seymour Porter’, op. cit., Huntingdon Library Quarterly, 1954.

  36Letters, V, p. 207N.

  37P.W., pp. 442–3.

  38Letters, V, p. 350.

  39Ibid, p. 352.

  40Talker, pp. 111–2.

  41Carlyle, Life of Sterling, op. cit., pp. 46–54.

  42Letters, V, pp. 403–4.

  43Ibid, p. 398.

  44Ibid, p. 401.

  45Ibid, p. 402.

  46Ibid, p. 411.

  47Ibid, p. 414.

  48Hazlitt, p. 244.

  49Letters, V, p. 414; S.P., p. 258.

  50S.P., p. 25; P.W., p. 447.

  51Letters, V, pp. 414–6; S.P., pp. 258–9; Complete Poetical Works, II, pp. 1110–11.

  52Aids, pp. 396–7.

  53Ibid, p. 397.

  54Ibid, pp. 397–8.

  55Ibid, p. 407.

  56Ibid, p. 407.

  57Romantic Influences: Contemporary, Victorian, Modern by John Beer, Macmillan, 1993, p. 152.

  58Talker, pp. 344–5.

  59Beer, op. cit., p. 152.

  60Ibid, p. 153.

  61Notebooks, IV, 5249.

  62Letters, VI, p. 532.

  63Ibid.

  64Ibid, p. 673.

  65Ibid, p. 592.

  66Ibid, pp. 593–601.

  67Ibid, p. 629.

  68Talker, p. 223.

  69S.P., p. 219; P.W., p. 48.

  70Letters, VI, p. 73 and Note.

  71Talker, p. 383.

  72S.P., pp. 290–2; P.W., pp. 443–7.

  73Chambers, pp. 307–8.

  74Letters, VI, pp. 700, 976.

  75Church and State, p. 46.

  77Letters, VI, pp. 968–9.

  78S.P., p. 221; P.W., pp. 488–9.

  79Minnow, p. 165.

  80Hartley Coleridge, Letters, op. cit., pp. 99–101.

  81Hartley, ‘Dedication to his Father’, p. 2.

  82Table Talk, I, p. 397.

  83Letters, VI, p. 986.

  84Table Talk, II, p. 296.

  85Letters, VI, p. 992.

  INDEX

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  Abelard, Peter, 128

  Abergavenny (ship), 39

  Abernethy, Dr John, 117, 228–30, 445

  Acheron, HMS, 34

  Adams, Dr Joseph, 424–5, 427

  Aders family, 340, 533, 551

  Aders, Charles, 507

  Adye, Major, 8–10, 20, 25; death, 34, 39

  Aeschylus, 509

  Alfoxden, Somerset, 109

  Allan Bank, Grasmere, 115, 126, 140, 142, 146–7, 150, 176–7, 180–1, 184–5, 190, 197

  Allsop, Thomas: attends STC’s lectures, 467, 493; visits STC, 488; and STC’s “Crown and Anchor” lectures, 489; and STC’s letter on marriage, 495; and STC’s inner uncertainties, 502; and STC’s financial losses, 504; sends money to STC, 507; meets STC’s sons, 510; and Hartley’s dismissal from Oriel, 513, 519; accompanies STC to Oxford, 517; love life, 523–4; STC corresponds with, 530–1, 545; STC stays with, 541

  Allston, Washington: friendship with STC in Rome, 53–7, 59–60, 67; background, 54; portraits of STC, 55–6, 274, 363–4, 393; STC writes essays on paintings of, 260–1, 363, 376; ST meets in England, 298, 340; death of wife, 360; STC cites in Biographia Literaria, 396; and US publication of Biographia Literaria, 416; “Belshazzar’s Feast” (painting), 54; “The Dead Man Restored to Life by Touching the Bones of the Prophet Elisha” (painting), 362; “Diana and Her Nymphs in the Chase” (painting), 54

  American Declaration of Independence, 247

  Amulet (magazine), 552

  Ancient Mariner, Rime of the: and STC’s Mediterranean journey, 3; and concept of evil, 146; STC offers copyright to Longmans, 160; shipwreck in, 182n; water metaphors, 206–7; Byron reads, 209; Lamb praises, 223; STC plans preface, 377; gloss device, 387, 418–20; Byron on, 414; vengeance theme, 419; printed in Sibylline Leaves, 420; parodied by Peacock, 450; reception, 454; Shelley quotes, 455; Wordsworth’s silence on, 458; Hazlitt on, 470; Peacock admires, 485; Lockhart praises, 508

  appeasement: STC opposes Whig policy of, 190

  Arbuthnot (Treasury official), 243

  Aristotle, 246, 396, 482, 490, 492–3

  Arnold, Matthew, 281n, 367n; Culture and Anarchy, 492n; “Dover Beach”, 459

  Arnold, Samuel, 321, 325, 331, 338

  Arnold, Thomas, 514

  Arrow, HMS, 34

  Ashley, near Box, Wiltshire, 349, 354, 360, 363, 365, 367–71, 373

  “Asra” see Hutchinson, Sara

  Associationism, 391, 396, 403, 411–12

  Athenagoras, 37, 279

  Atwood, George, 483

  Austerlitz, Battle of (1805), 51

  Bacon, Francis, 246, 482; Novum Organum, 461, 463

  Bailey, Benjamin, 456

  Baillie, Joanna, 311

  Ball, Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander: employs STC in Malta, 17–20, 22, 27–9, 31–4, 37, 39–42, 46, 58; recommends STC for further employment, 48–9, 66; and STC’s return to England, 48, 60, 75; pre-Trafalgar despatch from Nelson, 50–1; and printing of Malta Gazette, 158; STC’s memoir of life of, 164, 180, 182, 186–91, 484; death, 180; refuses political favours to Maltese nobleman, 238; STC discusses with nephews, 247; STC promises journalistic article on, 256

  Ball, Lady, 39–40

  Barbauld, Anna Letitia, 223, 311, 467

  Barnes, Thomas, 337

  Barsoni, Vittorio, 19, 46, 49

  Bath, 349–50

  Beattie, James: Dissertations Moral and Critical, 394n

  Beaumont, Francis, 82

  Beaumont, Sir George: Leicestershire estate (Coleorton), 4, 68, 74, 80–1; supplies wine and brandy to STC, 7; STC sends work to, 25, 34; and death of John Wordsworth, 40; Wordsworth writes to, 68–9, 89, 126; STC petitions for Henry Hutchinson, 121; Wordsworth describes STC lecture to, 125; attends STC lectures, 129, 310; praises STC’s controversial lecture, 132; and launching of The Friend, 139, 151; subscribes to The Friend, 161; and STC’s proposed volume version of The Friend, 203; and STC’s Shakespeare lectures, 274; proposes further lecture series by STC, 288; STC dines with, 298; Wordsworth visits, 299; and STC-Wordsworth quarrel, 300; supports fund for STC’s children, 359; commissions portrait of STC’s daughter Sara, 486; and Hartley’s dismissal from Oriel, 516, 518

 
Beaumont, Margaret, Lady, 51, 77, 82, 87, 185, 191, 298, 310, 516, 552

  beauty: STC on, 361–2, 361

  Beddoes, Dr Thomas, 96, 110–11, 143; death, 144

  Bedford, Grosvenor, 222

 

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