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by Richard Holmes


  WORKS

  Poetry

  “Ad Vilmum Axilogum”, 87

  “Alice Du Clos”, 552

  Ancient Mariner see as separate heading

  “An Angel Visitant”, 88

  “The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree” (unfinished), 43–4

  “The Brook”, 404

  “Christabel” see as separate heading

  “A Complaint”, 86–7

  “Constancy to an Ideal Object”, 62, 196, 398, 531

  “A Dark Sky” (fragment), 104

  “A Day-Dream”, 112

  “Dejection: an Ode”, 68, 94, 192, 531

  “The Delinquent Travellers”, 553–4

  “The Devil’s Thoughts”, 293

  “The Eolian Harp”, 420

  “Fancy in Nubibus”, 459

  “Farewell to Love”, 68

  “Fears in Solitude”, 167, 375

  “Fire, Famine and Slaughter”, 470

  “Frost at Midnight”, 420, 496, 517, 547

  “The Garden of Boccaccio”, 505, 552

  “Hope and Time”, 315–16

  “Human Life: On the Denial of Immortality”, 351–3, 490

  “Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouny”, 173, 251

  “Incantation” (from Remorse), 332

  “The Knight’s Tomb” (fragment), 113

  “Limbo”, 249–50, 531, 543, 556

  “Love”, 274, 369, 414, 454, 498

  “Love’s Apparition and Evanishment”, 556–7

  “Meditative Poems in Blank Verse”, 420

  “Metrical Experiment”, 297

  “The Nightingale”, 369

  “On the Denial of Immortality” see “Human Life”

  “The Pains of Sleep”, 426

  “The Pang More Sharp Than All: An Allegory”, 528, 531

  “Phantom”, 5–6

  “Phantom or Fact”, 150, 556

  The Poems (ed. Derwent and Sara Coleridge, 1852), 536n

  Poetical Works (ed. Henry Coleridge), 555

  “Recollections of Love”, 95, 104–5

  “The Reproof and Reply”, 543

  Sibylline Leaves, 378, 387, 390, 409, 416, 418, 420, 437, 446, 451, 454, 456, 458, 470, 504

  “The Suicide’s Argument”, 235–6

  “A Sunset”, 26

  “This Lime Tree Bower”, 420

  “The Three Graves”, 168, 174, 227

  “To the Evening Star”, 235

  “To Nature”, 494

  “To Two Sisters, A Wanderer’s Farewell”, 113–14

  “To William Wordsworth”, 85–6, 219, 382, 395, 420, 428, 531

  “A Tombless Epitaph”, 252

  “The Tropic Tree”, 88

  “The World that Spidery Witch”, 256, 547

  “You mould my Hopes”, 88

  “Youth and Age”, 506, 537–8

  Prose and Journalistic Writings

  Aids to Reflection, 72, 503, 533, 537–40, 544–5, 547–50

  “Algeria”, 18

  Biographia Literaria see as separate heading

  “Character of Bonaparte”, 182

  Conciones ad Populum, 481

  “Does Fortune Favour Fools?”, 180

  “Egypt”, 18

  “Enthusiasm for an Ideal World”, 481

  “An Essay on Genial Criticism” see

  “On the Principles of Genial Criticism”

  “Essay on the Principles of Method”, 481–3

  Essays on his Own Times, 536n

  “Fragments and Sketches of the Life of…Sir Alexander Ball”, 180, 182, 186–90, 481

  “The French in the Mediterranean”, 18

  “The Grounds of Peel’s Bill Vindicated”, 477

  “The Language of Dreams”, 473

  “Law of Association”, 192

  “The Law of Nations”, 190

  Lay Sermons: first (The Statesman’s Manual), 437, 439–41, 446, 450; second, 447–9, 504

  Letters, 124n

  “Letters on the Spaniards”, 183

  “Light in the Political Sky”, 242

  Literary Remains (ed. Henry Coleridge), 536n

  Logic, 519, 523–4, 587

  Logosophia see Opus Maximum

  “Malta”, 18

  Notebooks see as separate heading

  “On the Principles of Genial Criticism” (Allston Essays), 361, 363, 376

  “On the Vulgar Errors Respecting Taxes”, 173

  Opus Maximum (earlier Logosophia; unfinished and unpublished), 371–2, 413, 518, 523–4, 550, 555

  Osorio see Remorse

  “The Regent and Mr Perceval”, 238

  Remarks on Objections to Peel’s Bill, 476

  Remorse (play; originally Osorio), 93, 113, 298, 313, 321–7, 330–2, 335–8, 376–7, 384, 386

  “The Sciences and Theology” (symposium), 478

  “Sicily”, 18

  “Six Letters to Mr Justice Fletcher”, 370

  “The Spirit Unbroken”, 242

  The Statesman’s Manual see Lay Sermons (first)

  Table Talk (ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge), 245, 534, 559

  “The Tale of Maria Eleonora Schöning”, 173, 176

  A Theory of Life, 445, 478–9, 482, 584

  Zapolya, 421, 425, 431, 446, 504

  Coleridge, Sara (née Fricker; STC’s wife): letter from STC in Malta, 31–2; STC guarantees financial security, 31; temper, 37; and STC’s deferred return from Malta, 41, 47–8; STC sends money to from Malta, 46, 52n, 70; and STC’s return from abroad, 64, 77; marriage difficulties, 65, 68–9, 75–8, 90–1, 109–10, 120–1; STC writes to after return from abroad, 69–70; sees STC on return to Keswick, 74; STC gives financial support to, 79, 147, 241, 294; STC transfers Wedgwood annuity to, 79, 241, 294, 328–30; denies move to Bristol, 90; and George Coleridge’s invitation to Ottery, 91, 99; in Bristol, 94; quarrels wih STC, 94–5; in Nether Stowey, 95; introduced to De Quincey, 100; letters to Poole, 109; returns to Keswick from Bristol, 109–10; STC fails to write to, 111; and STC’s poem to Morgans, 115; letters from STC in London, 119, 133; STC stays with (1808), 147; nurses STC in attack of mumps, 160; forwards Friends subscriptions to STC, 182; STC visits after Asra’s departure, 193, 197–9, 203; believes STC daydreaming, 198; and STC’s interest in children, 199; and STC’s teaching daughter Sara, 199; and STC’s personal hygiene, 202; and STC’s stay with the Montagus, 211; STC denies as wife, 218; and Wordsworth’s ‘betrayal’ of STC to Montagu, 233–4; on Morgans’ tolerance of STC, 262; and STC’s plans for further lecture series, 288; and STC’s 1812 visit to Lakes, 291; and STC’s breach with Wordsworth, 292, 295, 301, 305; easier relations with STC, 294–5; savings, 294; underrates STC’s literary qualities, 295; STC requests to send banker’s draft to Morgan, 297; relations with Hartley, 317; and sons’ university education, 317; and STC’s reconciliation with Wordsworth, 317; STC sends money to after success of Remorse, 336; STC seeks payment from Murray for, 366; writes to Poole on STC’s retreat to Ashley, 369; disapproves of Murray publishing STC’s poems, 431; STC resumes correspondence from Highgate, 431; suggested as ‘person from Porlock’, 435; Poole writes to on STC in Highgate, 452; STC sends money to from Highgate, 452; and Collins portrait of daughter Sara, 486–7; on sons’ futures, 510; STC’s analysis of alienation from, 531; brings daughter Sara to meet STC, 534; settles in Hampstead with Sara and Henry, 554, 557; STC leaves estate to, 559

  Coleridge, Sara (STC’s daughter): welcomes STC on return from abroad, 77; stays with mother at Greta Hall, 79; with STC at Allan Bank, 147–9; on Asra, 148–9; STC’s interest in, 198–9, 293–4, 316, 453, 534–6; intellectual qualities and learning, 293–4, 487, 534; STC sends school books to, 298; edits STC’s works, 401, 536 & n; Collins portrait of, 486–7; STC predicts love affairs for, 495; brothers’ affection for, 510; meets STC in Highgate, 534; love and marriage with cousin Henry, 535, 554; sympathetic understanding of STC, 536; home in Hampstead, 554, 557

  Coleridge, William Hart (STC’s nephew), 467, 511

>   Collier, John Payne: on STC’s lecturing manner, 127; in STC’s circle, 224; on STC’s plans for Shakespeare lectures, 257; records STC’s Shakespeare lectures, 266, 268, 277–8; invited to STC’s 1818 lectures, 465

  Collins, Wilkie: takes opium, 12n

  Collins, William, 247, 486–7; “The Highland Girl” (portrait of STC’s daughter Sara), 486–7

  “Comforts and Consolations” (proposed anthology), 7

  Conversation Poems, 73, 85–6, 255, 420, 454

  Cooper, James Fenimore, 487n

  Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, 445, 477

  Copleston, Edward, 511, 514–15, 517–18

  Corn Law Bill and Act (1815), 375

  Corporation Hall, London, 264, 267

  Corsham House, Wiltshire, 373

  Cottle, Joseph: STC writes to, 95, 356, 359; De Quincey makes anonymous loan to STC through, 102, 110; attends STC’s lectures, 345; on STC’s opium consumption, 355; Southey spurns request to aid STC, 358; helps support Hartley, 359; moral exhortations to STC, 359, 368; STC appeals to for money, 375–6; suggested as ‘person from Porlock’, 436; Early Recollections, 360

  Courier (newspaper): STC contributes to, 18–19, 25, 184, 198, 227–8, 237–44, 246, 249, 256, 308, 370; prints STC’s sonnet “Farewell to Love”, 68; STC lives at offices, 113, 118–19, 122, 134; serializes Wordsworth’s pamphlet on Cintra, 157; reprints STC essay from The Friend, 173; prints article by Dubois as ‘STC’, 210; circulation, 227–8; STC requests salaried post at, 237; STC compromises independent policy, 242–3; pro-government political stance, 244, 413; STC leaves, 257; notices STC’s lectures, 466, 493; and STC’s campaign against child labour, 476; STC advertizes tutorials in, 524

  Crabbe, George: takes opium, 12n

  Craig, General Sir James, 42, 52

  Crashaw, Richard, 96

  creativity, 396–8, 410

  Critical Review, 434

  Crompton, Dr Peter, 290

  Crown and Anchor, Seven Dials, Strand (London): STC lectures at, 489, 493, 504

  Cruikshank family, 103

  Cruikshank, George, 442

  Cumberland Packet (newspaper), 293

  Curtis, Rev. Thomas, 438–9, 445, 451, 504

  Curwen, J.C. (MP), 160

  Dance, George, the Younger, 81

  Daniel, Dr (of Bristol), 354–5, 358, 360, 365, 373

  Dante Alighieri: STC reads, 3, 58; STC lectures on, 465, 467; Divina Commedia, 458, 468

  Darwin, Charles, 479, 540n

  Darwin, Erasmus, 286

  Davies, Hart, 344

  Davy, Jane, Lady (née Apreece), 267, 311

  Davy, Sir Humphry: STC asks about shipboard conditions, 11; and chance discoveries, 17; lectures at Royal Institution, 70; and STC’s London lectures, 71, 93, 107–8, 113, 117, 119, 130, 136–7, 267; uses Poole’s bookroom, 95; lectures at Royal Society, 108; STC writes to, 108–9; STC fails to write to, 111; illness, 113, 119; demonstrates and lectures at Royal Institution, 115, 136; poem on science and poetry, 137n; and launching of The Friend, 144, 151–2, 154; hyperbolic description of STC, 175; knighted, 311; and STC’s efforts to help Morgans, 344; and STC’s concept of beauty, 361; STC hopes for help from, 421; and STC’s essay on method, 482

 

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