Dawe, George, 274, 298
Dawes, John, 199, 290, 496, 525–7, 532
Dawkins, Richard, 540n
death: STC on, 60–1, 235
Decatur, Captain Stephen (US Navy), 29, 37, 46, 48
Dennison (Malta secretary), 43
De Quincey, Thomas: takes opium, 12n, 101–2, 355n; first meets STC, 100–1; background, 101; loan to STC, 102, 110; STC’s influence on, 102; escorts Coleridge family to Keswick, 109–10; attends STC’s lecture, 116–17, 119, 127; letters from STC, 119; STC entertains in London, 122; and STC’s stolen lecture notes, 136; visits Worsdworths at Grasmere, 146–7, 155; STC recruits to help with publication of classics, 158; subscribes to The Friend, 161; and Asra’s mocking fear of imprisonment, 171; organizes firework display at Allan Bank, 180; promotes Jean-Paul Richter, 251; and STC’s alleged plagiarisms, 280n; influenced by STC, 281n; and death of Tom Wordsworth, 333; requests return of gift to STC, 507; marriage, 532; Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 101, 355n, 380; Suspira De Profundis, 436n
Derkheim, Captain, 58–9, 61–2, 67
Descartes, René, 491
determinism, 396
Dibdin, Revd Mr, 136
Dickens, Charles: Hard Times, 290
disbelief, willing suspension of, 130, 385, 456
Donne, John, 467
Dove Cottage, Grasmere, 147, 185
Drayton, Michael: The Man in the Moon, 425
dreams: STC on, 229–30 & n
Drury Lane see Theatre Royal
Dryden, John, 247
Dubois, Edward, 210
Dunn, T.H. (Highgate chemist), 427, 521–2, 541–2, 545
D’Urfé, Honoré see Urfé, Honoré d’
Dyer, George, 267, 272
Eclectic Review, 434–5
Edinburgh Review: STC reviews Clarkson book in, 141, 143; editorial policy, 152, 268; STC reads, 371; Jeffreys attacks Wordsworth’s The Excursion in, 382; Byron requests Tom Moore to review “Christabel” favourably in, 415; on STC’s 1816 return to London, 423; Moore criticizes “Christabel” in, 439; Hazlitt attacks STC in, 442, 448, 453, 466, 500; praises Cary’s translation of Dante, 468
education: STC lectures on, 131–2, 465; STC favours national, 309–10, 441, 449; STC on role of, 551
Egremont, George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of, 103
Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried, 199, 229n
Elliot, Hugh, 27, 48–9, 51, 60
Elliston, Robert, 331
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 487n
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 461, 463
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, 446, 451, 458, 461–2, 481, 504
Englefield, Sir Henry, 132
Erasmus, Desiderius, 167, 491, 493
Estlin, John Prior, 161, 356
Etna, Mount, 21, 34, 359
Eton (Superintendent of Quarantine, Malta), 49
Evans, Mary see Todd, Mary
Everall and Wilson’s (London medical suppliers), 357
evil: STC on concept of, 146
evolution: STC’s views on, 286, 479, 482, 540 & n
Examiner (newspaper), 152, 227–8, 337, 424, 434, 439, 442, 449, 478, 533; see also Hunt, Leigh
Factory Acts, 474–7
Falkland Islands, 190
Falkner (travelling theatrical producer), 384
Fancy: in Biographia Literaria, 384, 390–1, 394, 400, 405, 408, 410, 412; STC defines, 410; see also Imagination
Faraday, Michael, 559
Farrington, Joseph, 127
Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, 344, 360, 376
Fenner, Rest: publishes STC, 444–6, 452, 458, 461–2, 465, 489; bankruptcy, 501, 504, 507
Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies and of Naples, 27
Ferri, Ciro: “The Marriage of Boas and Ruth” (painting), 213
Ferrier, J.F., 280n
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 36n, 224, 348, 371, 398, 400
Findlay, Captain John, 2, 8, 10–12, 14, 16
Flaxman, John, 460
Fletcher, Phineas, 369
Fleur de Luce Court see Philosophical Society
Fourdrinier Stationers (London), 159
Fox, Charles James, 64, 237, 256–7
Fox, George, 145, 399
France: fleet breaks out of Toulon, 39; occupies Rome, 55–6; see also Napoleon I, Emperor
Francis de Sales, St, 207
Fraser (Times leader-writer), 243
Fraser’s Magazine, 524
Frere, John Hookham: STC meets, 426; relations with STC, 430; visits STC in Highgate, 487n, 488; and STC’s “Crown and Anchor” lectures, 489; STC recounts meeting with Keats, 499–500; finances Derwent’s Cambridge education, 507; meets STC’s sons, 510
Freud, Sigmund, 229n
Fricker, George, 71–2
Friedrich, Caspar David, 232
Friend, The (STC; as newspaper, 1809–10; later as essay collection): tribute to Tom Wedgwood in, 97; STC plans, 139, 143; launching of, 144, 149, 151–3, 155, 159–61; production and financing of, 144, 156–60, 171; STC writes about evil in, 146; Asra helps STC with, 150, 155, 166, 176–7, 193, 378; Prospectus, 153–5, 157; subscribers, 159–61, 164, 174, 182, 228; Wordsworth sends advice on, 162; contents, doctrine and style, 163–76, 180, 182–3, 190, 238, 242; first issues published, 163; financial difficulties, 164, 170–1, 182, 338; irregularity, 166; change to more open editorial course, 172–4; prints extracts from Wordsworth’s Prelude, 173, 184; ‘Satyrane’ figure in, 174–6, 180; travel letters in, 174, 180; reception and reactions to, 183–4, 198, 227; militant line against Napoleon, 190; ceases publication, 191–3, 202; STC considers continuation, 198, 200, 237, 313, 339; STC proposes augmented version as volume, 203, 208, 241, 413; on effort required for knowledge, 205n; on doctrine of original sin, 218; Gale and Curtis offer to republish, 288, 297–8; unused sheets, 289–90; republished, 309; in Biographia Literaria, 403; Hazlitt attacks, 439; reissue in new edition, 446, 479–82; influence, 484; and Fenner’s bankruptcy, 504
“Friends of German Literature”, 450
Fuseli, Henry, 54
Gale and Curtis (publishers), 288, 297, 310
Gale and Fenner (publishers), 437–8
Galignani (Paris publisher), 500
Galileo Galilei, 482, 491
Gallow Hill, near Scarborough, 112
Genesis, Book of, 38
George III, King, 237, 460
George IV, King (earlier Prince Regent), 237, 245, 307, 505
Géricault, Jean Louis André Théodore: “The Raft of the Medusa” (painting), 182n
Germany: STC’s views on, 277–8; STC travels with Wordsworth in, 553
Gibraltar, 1, 7–11
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck, 492n
Gillies, Robert Pearse, 457
Gillman, Ann (née Harding): marriage, 427; STC’s manner with, 428; close friendship with STC, 431, 481, 502–3, 505, 508, 513, 541, 544; holidays with STC, 443; sea-bathing, 444, 522; pleasure at STC’s “Fancy in Nubibus”, 459; STC writes to from Maldon, 479; feeds STC, 488; and STC’s reaction to Steinmetz’s handshake, 499; STC’s poems to, 503, 505, 552; generosity to STC, 507; and STC’s children, 510; and Hartley’s dismissal from Oriel, 513; Hartley visits home, 518; pleads with Mrs Montagu not to expel Hartley, 519–20; and STC’s regard for Allsop, 523; and Henry Coleridge’s love for cousin Sara, 535; breaks arm, 541; reproaches Dunn for supplying opium to STC, 542; worries at STC, 545; letter from STC using spider image, 546; and STC’s collapse (1830), 556
Gillman, Henry (Ann and James’s son), 427, 443–5, 508, 520
Gillman, Dr James: and STC’s journey to plead for Hartley in Oxford, 417; accommodates and treats STC for addiction, 424–5, 427–32, 451, 487; scientific research, 432, 524, 539; holidays with STC, 443–4, 458, 505, 522; and STC’s A Theory of Life, 445, 478; and Highgate study circle, 451; dissuades STC from suing Blackwood’s, 454; vetoes STC’s lecturing (1818), 466; and STC’s move to Westminster, 475; STC dedicates new edition of The Friend to, 481; and transcription of STC’s “Crown and An
chor” lectures, 489; family seeks advice from STC, 495; generosity in STC’s financial crisis, 504–5, 507–8; medical reputation, 508; pays STC’s sons’ expenses, 510; and Hartley’s dismissal from Oriel, 512–13; helps Hartley after dismissal, 518, 520; and STC’s secret opium taking, 521, 542; nurses Derwent during typhus attack, 526–7; and Hartley’s final separation from STC, 527–8; letters from STC, 531, 544; moves house in Highgate, 540–1; STC deputizes for during illness, 543; and STC’s collapse (1830), 556; accompanies STC to British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, 559; attends STC in final illness, 559; as STC’s executor, 559
Gillman, James, Jr, 427, 443, 508, 520, 551
Giotto, 57, 61
Glover, Julia, 331
God: STC’s views on, 72, 204, 216–17
Godwin, Mary see Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Godwin, William: holds MS copy of STC’s Remorse, 93, 325; and STC in London, 93, 122, 133, 222, 224, 236; attends STC lecture, 130; in Crabb Robinson’s diaries, 223; invited to STC’s lectures with children, 266–7; Shelley meets, 293; attends opening of STC’s Remorse, 336; invited to STC’s 1818 lectures, 465; Faulkner, 321–2
Goethe, Johann Wofgang von, 53, 224, 226, 492n; in Biographia Literaria, 380; Faust, 365–7; “Kennst du das Land” (Mignon’s song), 339–40; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, 226, 282, 339
Gooch, Dr Robert, 314
Gosport (ship), 59, 61–2, 66
Grasmere, 115, 145–7, 158
Grattan, Henry, 236
Gray, Thomas: “Elegy in a Country Church Yard”, 247
Green, Joseph Henry: in “Friends of German Literature”, 450; invites STC to dine, 459; records STC’s Philosophical Society lectures, 465, 469; and STC’s campaign against child labour, 475; seaside holiday with STC, 480; as STC’s confidant, 488; and STC’s meeting with Keats, 497, 499; scientific research, 503, 539, 548, 550; pays STC’s life assurance premiums, 507; academic posts, 551; and STC’s Opus Maximum, 555 & n; accompanies STC to British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, 559; as STC’s executor, 559; at STC’s deathbed, 560; “Introduction to the Philosophical Remains of S.T. Coleridge”, 555n; Spiritual Philosophy, 555n
Greta Hall, Keswick, 33, 46, 74, 77, 79, 90, 147, 160, 192, 197, 208, 210, 291–5, 317, 532
Greville, Fulke, 68, 77
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl see Howick, Viscount
Gutch, John Mathew: STC requests advance from, 376, 413; and publication of Biographia Literaria, 383, 404–5, 408–9, 416, 433, 446; STC invites to Calne, 413; and STC’s financial difficulties, 421; sends bill to STC, 440, 445–6
Habeas Corpus: suspended (1817), 442
Haberfield (Bristol valet), 360
Hallam, Arthur, 500
Hammersmith: STC in, 220–2, 224, 229, 231, 241, 244, 249, 255, 259–60
Hampstead Heath, 427, 431, 559
Hardenberg, Baron F. von see Novalis
Harding, Lucy, 427
Hardy (surgeon of HMS Maidstone), 12, 14
Hare, Julius, 467, 484, 487n, 550
Harrington, Sir John, 33
Harris, Mary, 515
Harris, Thomas, 339
Hartley, David, 100, 391, 393, 396; Essay on Man, 403
Hawkins, Edward, 514
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 54
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 81, 161, 465;
“immortal dinner”, 464
Hazlitt, William: STC’s kindness to, 71; uses Poole’s bookroom, 95; STC’s influence on, 100; Lamb writes to about The Friend, 151; praises STC in youth, 175; and STC’s London social life, 222, 224, 236; political radicalism, 224, 478; STC criticizes social views, 226; and STC’s patriotic journalism, 240, 244; attends STC’s Shakespeare lectures, 267, 271–2; lectures at Russell Institute, 271; and STC’s alleged plagiarisms, 280n, 466; salaried post at Morning Chronicle, 328; mocks STC’s philosophical work, 372; and image of desert journey, 399; reviews Schlegel’s Lectures, 424; attacks on STC, 432, 434, 438–40, 442, 446, 448–9, 453, 455, 469–70, 494, 533, 545–7; reviews “Christabel”, 434; lectures on English Poets at Surrey Institution, 465–9; panegyric to STC’s genius, 470–1; fives-playing, 471n; writes on STC, 544; separates from wife, 545; “A Farewell to Essay-Writing”, 471n; Liber Amoris, 545; “My First Acquaintance with Poets”, 472n; “On the Pleasures of Hating”, 472n
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 36n
Heinse, J.J.W.: Ardinghello, 264
Henley Pest House, 526
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 127, 276
Herschel, Sir William, 479
Highgate: STC retreats to Gillmans at Moreton House in, 426–33, 443, 452, 472, 486–7, 500, 502; literary-philosophical activities, 450–1; STC’s social life in, 533; Gillman moves house in, 540–1
Highgate Free Grammar School, 522
Hirondelle, L’, HMS, 27–8
historicism, 462n
Hogarth Press, 158
Hogarth, William: “The Rake’s Progress” (prints), 255
Hogg, James, 435
Holmes, Richard: lectures on STC at Royal Institution, 137n
Homer, 273
Hone’s Reformist Register, 448
Hood, Thomas, 487n
Hood, William, 344, 376, 392–3, 440, 442, 446, 448
Horsey, Samuel, 37
Howick, Charles Grey, Viscount (later 2nd Earl Grey), 66–7
Hudson, Miss (actress), 416
Hudson’s Hotel, King Street (London), 214, 216, 219
Hugo, Victor, 323n
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 52–3, 275
Hume, David: In the Treaties of Human Nature, 397n
Hunt, Henry (“Orator”), 478
Hunt, Leigh: on STC’s return to Courier, 227–8; imprisoned, 238; attacks STC’s political apostasy, 244; on STC’s Remorse, 338; publishes Shelley’s translations of Faust fragments, 367n; witnesses Coleridge’s meeting with Byron, 426; radicalism, 449, 478; Shelley dines with, 455; praises STC as poet, 533; visits STC in Highgate, 551; The Story of Rimini, 467; see also Examiner
Hunter, John, 427, 445, 491
Hurwitz, Hyman: friendship with STC, 460
Hutchinson, Henry, 121–2
Hutchinson, Sara (“Asra”): and STC’s absence on Mediterranean journey, 1, 5, 10–11, 31, 47; STC’s infatuation with, 12n, 37, 41, 65, 72, 76, 79, 82–3, 85–9, 101, 105, 107, 114, 121, 135, 139, 146, 148–50, 176–8, 184–5, 196, 201, 207, 213, 216–19, 231, 249, 260, 306, 314–15, 433; and STC’s attraction to Cecilia Bertozzi, 22–5, 150; and death of John Wordsworth, 40, 60, 76; STC’s poems to, 43–4, 62, 87–9, 94, 306, 420, 454; and STC’s return from Mediterranean, 58; STC revisits on return to Kendal, 74–5; role in Wordsworth household, 76; Wordsworth encourages STC’s relationship with, 76; Hartley dislikes, 80, 93, 148; at Coleorton, 81–2; supposed improper relations with Wordsworth, 83–5, 139–40, 501; on Hartley’s naïveté in London, 93; and “Dejection” ode, 94, 192; letters to STC in Bristol destroyed, 94; visits Clarksons, 94; at Gallow Hill, 112; letters from STC, 119; Morgan sisters dresses sent to, 120; illnesses, 122, 157; stays with Mrs Clarkson, 143; STC returns to (1808), 144, 146, 148–9; STC’s daughter Sara on, 148; walking tour with Wordsworth and STC, 149; alters appearance with cap, 150; helps STC with The Friend, 150, 155, 166, 176–7, 185, 193, 378; rebuffs STC, 150–1; mocks fear of imprisonment, 171; changes under Wordsworth’s regime, 179; STC’s demands on, 184; leaves Allan Bank for Radnorshire, 191–4, 198–9, 202; Dorothy Wordsworth criticizes STC’s treatment of, 194–6; Wordsworth visits in Radnorshire, 200; letters to cousin Mary Monkhouse, 244; STC hopes to see on 1812 visit to Lakes, 291–2; and STC’s quarrel with Wordsworth, 292, 300–1, 303, 305–6; relations with Sara, 295; Charlotte Brent resembles, 312, 392; cares for Wordsworth children, 335; unmentioned in Biographia Literaria, 380; Mary Lamb writes to, 392; copies “Christabel”, 414; meets STC with Wordsworth (1817), 463–5; Keats meets, 465; STC on loss of, 531; at Monkhouse’s dinner party, 537; bequest from STC, 559
Hutchinson, Thomas, 171, 191, 19
3, 200
Imagination: STC on power of, 108, 124n, 126, 129–30; STC on Shakespeare’s, 123–5, 168; demonic nature, 168 & n; moon as symbol of, 250; in Biographia Literaria, 379, 384, 390–2, 394, 396, 400, 403–4, 405, 407–8, 410–12, 435, 453; German philosophers and, 400; STC defines, 410–1; Keats on, 456
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