Coleridge- Darker Reflections

Home > Memoir > Coleridge- Darker Reflections > Page 76
Coleridge- Darker Reflections Page 76

by Richard Holmes


  Newmarket: STC attends races, 74

  Norfolk Street, Covent Garden (London), 423

  “North, Christopher” see Wilson, John

  Notebooks: on opium, 12n, 96, 356, 521; on Malta, 18, 32, 34; and STC’s ascent of Mount Etna, 21; on Cecilia Bertozzi, 23; cipher in, 35, 94, 178, 296; introspective musings in, 36–9, 73n, 135, 208, 216–19, 406, 417, 531; and return journey from Malta, 50; and STC’s struggle on return from Mediterranean, 65; on Hartley’s education, 70; on passion for Asra, 75, 83–4, 87, 107, 114, 149, 177, 196, 216–18, 296, 433; on relations with Wordsworth, 86, 107; on STC’s sensitivity, 87; on STC’s stay in Bristol, 94; on marriage failure, 95; outlines STC’s lecture themes, 109; on isolation and depression, 137–8, 216; on 1808 return to Lake District, 144; and The Friend, 153, 155, 198, 200; compares life to shipwreck, 180–1, 189; hints of suicide in, 200–1; fascination with origins, 203–4; as repository of STC’s learning, 203–5; on Scott’s Lady of the Lake, 210; on Morgans and Charlotte Brent, 220; on stay at Morgans’, 221; on London social-literary life, 224; nightmares in, 229; on death, 235; Jean-Paul Richter quoted and translated in, 251–2, 254–5; on spider’s web, 256; and STC’s alleged plagiarisms, 281n; on popular education, 310; abstract diagrams in, 316; address to Muse in, 369–70; on Wordsworth’s self-obsession, 383; Charlotte Brent and Mary Morgan organize, 387; and Biographia Literaria, 407–8; on Imagination, 407; loss of intimacy, 433; on final lecture, 493; on love, 495n; dreams in, 501; on poem “Youth and Age”, 537; science and philosophy in, 550

  Novalis (Baron F. von Hardenberg): Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 479, 586

  Omniana (annual anthology), 203

  opium (and laudanum): STC takes, 11–12 & n, 14–15, 19, 32, 45, 66, 77, 82, 96, 102, 103, 110, 117, 120, 134, 137–8, 184, 189, 201, 211, 228, 236, 239, 254, 263, 314, 340, 349–50, 355–6, 368, 416, 421, 423, 502, 521, 541–2; De Quincey and, 12n, 101–2; poppies in Sicily, 22; STC seeks cures from, 144, 145, 154–5, 177, 216, 228, 355, 424–5, 428–30, 444–5; dosage, 355n; cost, 522

  organic form: STC’s theory of, 278–9

  Oriel College, Oxford, 496, 510–18, 531

  Ottery St Mary (Devon): George’s invitation to STC to stay in, 90–1, 99, 109; STC reopens communication with family at, 244; resemblance to Calne, 374

  Oxford University see Merton College; Oriel College

  Page, Dr George, 373

  Paine, Thomas, 227

  Paley, William, Archdeacon of Carlisle, 71

  Palmer, Samuel, 473

  Pantisocracy, 37, 170, 172–3, 204, 348, 554

  Parry, Caleb, 350

  Pasley, Captain, 39, 51–2, 161, 213

  Peacock, Thomas Love: caricatures STC, 175, 432, 450, 454–5, 485; and Shelley’s The Defence of Poetry, 455; Headlong Hall, 450; Melincourt, 449–50; Nightmare Abbey, 454, 485–6

  Peel, Sir Robert, 474–7

  Penn, Granville, 18, 49

  Pennington, Matthew, 157–8

  Penrith, 74, 158–9, 171, 176, 296

  Pentridge Revolution (1817), 447

  perception: STC’s views on, 114n

  Perceval, Spencer, 227–8, 237, 242, 245; assassinated, 307–8

  Peterloo Massacre (1819), 478

  Petrarch, 467; On the Life of Solitude, 163

  Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, 475

  Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 355n

  Pharmacy and Poisons Act (1868), 355n

  Philadelphia (ship), 29

  Phillips, Thomas, 478; portrait of STC, 487

  Philosophical Institution, London, 264–5

  Philosophical Society, Fleur de Luce Court (London), 465–8

  philosophy: STC lectures on (1818–19), 489–94

  Philpot (Ramsgate bathing-machine attendant), 545

  Pickering, William (publisher), 555

  Pisa, 57–60

  Pitt, William, the younger: death, 64, 237; STC promises article on, 256–7

  Plato, 114n, 135, 482, 490, 492–3

  Plotinus, 362

  Poe, Edgar Allan: takes opium, 12n; “The Maelstrom”, 403n

  poetry: STC on theories of, 388–91, 398, 435, 453

  Polidori, Dr William, 437; The Vampyre, 437

  Political Register (Cobbett) see Weekly Political Register

  Poole, Thomas: STC and family stay with in Nether Stowey, 95–7, 103–4, 106, 112; writes to Josiah Wedgwood, 97; Davy writes to about STC’s lectures, 107; Sara writes to, 109, 510; and STC’s opium addiction, 110; STC fails to write to, 111; STC complains of ill-treatment by, 138; and STC’s launching of The Friend, 151–2, 157, 160; Wordsworth writes to on STC’s future, 162, 212; supports The Friend, 171, 182–3; STC writes to on life at Allan Bank, 185; Sara Coleridge writes of STC to, 199, 295; and STC’s proposed volume version of The Friend, 203; and STC’s breach with Wordsworth, 305; and success of STC’s Remorse, 338; supports fund for STC’s children, 359; visits STC and Hartley, 452; and Hartley’s dismissal from Oriel, 516, 518; and STC’s exhaustion with Hartley, 520; letters from STC, 530; Mrs Coleridge recounts STC’s talk at granddaughter’s christening, 557; bequest from STC, 559

  Pope, Alexander, 276, 451

  Pople (bookseller), 337

  Porlock: person from, 435–6

  Porson, Richard, 74

  Porter, Seymour, 521–2, 542

  Prelude, The (Wordsworth): and STC’s Mediterranean voyage, 1; STC reads in manuscript, 3; dedicated to STC, 25; STC consulted over, 74, 76, 82, 85, 87; Wordsworth reads to family and STC, 85; extracts published in The Friend, 173, 184; and STC’s Biographia Literaria, 380

  Priestley, Joseph, 373

  progressive transition, 481, 483

  Psellus, Michael, 419

  punishment: STC condemns in schools, 131–2

  Purkis, Samuel, 172

  Pythagoras, 492

  Quakers (Society of Friends), 73, 145–6;

  subscribe to The Friend, 161n; see also Clarkson, Thomas

  Quantock Hills, Somerset, 104–6, 109, 403, 537

  Quarterly Review: Southey reviews for, 198; Scott reviews Southey’s “The Curse of Kehema” in, 210; John Taylor Coleridge contributes to, 245, 368; STC criticizes in lecture, 268; and assassination of Perceval, 309; Southey’s earnings from, 328; Southey asks to review Remorse in, 338; assessment of STC, 368; STC reads, 371; criticizes “Christabel”, 439; hostility to STC, 446; praises Cary’s translation of Dante, 468

  Rabelais, François, 465, 469

  Rae, Alexander, 331

  Ramsgate, Kent, 505–6, 522, 527, 532, 540, 544, 552

  Rann, Joseph, 344

  Raphael Sanzio, 361, 463

  Reform Bill, First (1832; “Great”), 477

  religion: STC’s beliefs and interest in, 71–3, 204–7, 216–18; see also Christianity

  resurrection: STC’s views on, 359

  Reynolds, John Hamilton, 368

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 81

  Richter, Jean-Paul, 232, 252–5, 278, 348, 407, 418; Geist, oder Chrestomathie, 231, 251–3; Palingenesien, 252

  Rickman, John, 78, 183, 200, 211, 224, 264, 267, 272, 309

  Ridley, Matt, 540n

  Rifleman (newspaper), 286

  Rigaud, Stephen, 248

  Rimbaud, Arthur: “Le Bateau Ivre”, 182n

  Robinson, Henry Crabb: attends and reports STC’s lectures, 127–8, 130–2, 143, 265–9, 271, 273–4, 281, 286, 311, 465–7, 469; subscribes to The Friend, 161; background, 222–3; relations with and observations on STC, 222–7, 232–3, 236; STC reviews translation of Amatonda, 231; criticizes STC’s patriotic journalism, 240; reads STC’s article on reappointment of Duke of York, 243; and STC’s cancelled Courier article, 243; gives Richter’s Geist to STC, 251–3; and STC’s supposed plagiarism, 254, 280n; Southey harangues, 256; discusses STC with Mrs Clarkson, 258; misjudges STC, 258; STC requests copy of Schlegel’s lectures from, 266, 275; and STC’s relief from bowel problem, 267; admires STC’s references to German writers, 276; and STC’s imitating Schlegel, 277–8; Mrs Clarkson w
rites to on STC’s relations with Wordsworth, 296; and STC’s quarrel with Wordsworth, 301–6; and Wordsworth’s reputation, 311; and STC’s Surrey Institution lectures, 318–19; and production of STC’s Remorse, 322, 336–8; and STC’s quiescence after Remorse success, 339; STC borrows books from, 348; favours STC’s translating Faust, 366; visits STC on 1816 return to London, 424; appreciates “Kubla Khan”, 429; visits STC in Highgate, 430–1, 450, 551; reviews STC’s second Lay Sermon, 448; dissuades STC from suing Blackwood’s, 454; and Wordsworth’s reading of Biographia Literaria, 457; on STC’s meeting with Wordsworth and Asra at Monkhouse’s, 463–4; attends Hazlitt’s lectures, 469; and STC’s campaign against child labour, 475, 477; at Monkhouse’s dinner party, 636–7; Diaries, 223

  Rogers, Samuel, 274, 310, 536

  Rogers, William, 130

  Romanticism: and Imagination, 108; German, 232, 246, 276; STC lectures on origins, 318–20; in STC’s Biographia Literaria, 378; and creativity, 410

  Rome: STC in, 50–7, 67

  Rossetti, Gabriel, 487n, 544

  Rough, Sergeant William, 224

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 167–8

  Rowan, Sir William Hamilton, 487n

  Royal College of Surgeons, 432, 548, 555

  Royal Institution, London: STC’s proposed lectures at, 66, 70–1, 79, 107; character, 115–16; STC delivers lectures at, 115–20, 123–33, 273, 441; payments to STC, 117, 136, 161; STC terminates lectures, 135–6; lectures in honour of STC, 136, 137n

  Royal Society, 70, 108

  Royal Society of Literature, 541

  Rumford, Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von, 116

  Ruskin, John, 484

  Russell Institute, London, 271

  Russell, Thomas, 53, 57–9, 61–2, 67, 90

  Russia, 29

  Rydal Mount: Wordsworth moves to, 335, 339

  St Lawrence, 503

  San Antonio see Malta

  Satirist (magazine), 330

  Saumarez, Richard, 317

  Savage, William, 144, 156

  Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von: and organic unity, 36n; STC discusses with Tieck, 53; Crabb Robinson discusses with STC, 224, 269; and STC’s supposed plagiarism, 253–4, 280n, 401, 406; in STC’s lectures, 311; STC reads, 348, 371; notion of Nature, 352; STC’s analysis of, 391, 393, 437, 478–9; on Imagination, 400, 405; in Biographia Literaria, 405–6, 407, 412; Magee on, 411n; and life forms, 479; Abhandlungen, 406; Naturphilosophie, 398, 407, 479; Philosophische Schriften, 406; System of Transcendental Idealism, 53, 398, 406

  Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, 53, 127, 212, 224, 276, 469; Don Carlos, 315; Wallenstein, 323, 366, 369, 508

  Schlegel, August Wilhelm von: STC discusses with Tieck, 53; STC accused of plagiarizing, 253, 271, 275–9, 280n, 281n, 401; STC disagrees with, 254; influence on STC, 271; on Shakespeare, 275, 279–80, 283–4, 401; STC influenced by, 279, 311; STC acknowledges debt to, 466; meets STC and Wordsworth in Germany, 553; Lectures on Dramatic Literature (ber dramatischer Kunst und Litteratur, Vorlesungen), 266, 269, 275–8, 283, 318–21, 344, 424, 466

  Schöning, Maria Eleonora, 173, 176, 178

  Scott, Sir Walter: STC visits with Hartley, 93; imitates “Christabel”, 94, 208–10, 277, 280n; Wordsworth recommends The Friend to, 155; subscribes to The Friend, 161; in Crabb Robinson’s diaries, 223; success, 337; good relations with Byron, 377; recites from “Christabel”, 414; Schlegel disparages, 553; Lady of the Lake, 208–10; “Lay of the Last Minstrel”, 94; Marmion, 209

  sex: STC on, 35–6, 43, 47

  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of: Characteristicks, 394n

  Shakespeare, William: STC lectures on, 107, 109, 119, 123–5, 127, 231, 257, 264–86, 311, 318, 344, 465, 489, 494; STC on inward imagery, 168; Schlegel on, 275, 279–80, 283–4, 401; STC compares Goethe to, 367; and STC’s theories of poetry, 389; Keats appreciates STC on, 456; and STC’s essay on method, 482; Hamlet, 226–7, 249, 252, 269, 281–6, 311, 318, 323, 344, 356, 482; Henry IV Part I, 482; King Lear, 239, 269; Love’s Labours Lost, 272; Macbeth, 318, 344; Measure for Measure, 327; Othello, 318; Romeo and Juliet, 231, 272, 275, 318; The Tempest, 277, 279–80; Venus and Adonis, 123, 125

  Sharp, Richard, 171, 298–300

  Shelley, Harriet (née Westbrook; PBS’s first wife), 267, 292

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (née Godwin; PBS’s second wife), 266, 437, 454–5; Frankenstein, 280, 323n, 437

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe: in Crabb Robinson’s diaries, 223; political disaffection, 238; absent from STC’s lectures, 267; elopes with Harriet, 267; in Lakes, 292–3; favours STC’s translating Goethe’s Faust, 367n; discusses STC, 432; reads “Christabel”, 437; caricatured by Peacock, 454–5, 485; reads Biographia Literaria, 454–5; regard for STC’s poetic vision, 455; STC praises, 456n; Hazlitt on, 471n; The Cenci, 323n; The Defence of Poetry, 130n, 455; “The Devil’s Talk”, 293; “The Mask of Anarchy”, 455; “Peter Bell the Third”, 455

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 321, 324

  shipwreck: STC compares life with, 180–1, 189, 505, 554–5

  Sicily, 1, 16, 18, 20–7, 50

  Sidney, Sir Philip, 493

  Skinner, Captain, 28

  slave trade, 73, 141–3, 226, 474, 477

  Smith, Horace, 455

  Smith, Miss (actress), 330–1

  Smith, Mrs (grocer of Box), 349

  Smith, Stevie: “Coleridge and the Person from Porlock”, 436n

  Smith, Sydney, 116, 223

  Sotheby, William: and STC in Malta, 18; STC’s letters to, 73; STC borrows from, 93, 110; STC visits in London, 94, 133; attends STC lectures, 130, 310; and STC’s proposed magazine, 139; proposes further lecture series by STC, 288; STC hopes for help from, 421

  soul: STC’s views on, 72–3, 473

  Soult, Marshal Nicolas J. de Dieu, 242

  Southey, Edith (née Fricker; Robert’s wife), 292

  Southey, Robert: cares for STC’s family during absence, 1, 33; STC writes to from Mediterranean, 6, 33; and STC’s silence in Italy, 51; and STC’s return voyage to England, 62; and STC’s arrival from abroad, 64, 77; and STC’s marriage difficulties, 68, 78; disapproves of STC’s lectures scheme, 70; sees STC on return to Keswick, 74; literary reputation, 78; Sara depends on, 78; letter from STC on poetry output, 89; STC believes moving from Greta Hall, 90; and Hartley’s procrastination, 92; on STC’s procrastination, 98; De Quincey visits, 110; and STC’s poem to Morgans, 115; letters from STC in London, 119; on STC’s condemnation of school punishments, 131–2; STC complains of ill-treatment by, 138; on STC’s appearance, 146; at Greta Hall, 147, 294; doubts on success of The Friend, 152, 154; helps finance The Friend, 157; encourages STC, 160; incensed by STC’s disavowal of Jacobinism, 170; opinion of The Friend, 171–3; STC proposes publishing cheap edition of poems, 179; STC writes to about dying mother, 179; contributes to Quarterly Review, 198, 210, 328; praises The Friend, 198; and STC’s stay with Sara at Greta Hall, 199–200; uses STC’s fragments for Omniana, 203; in STC’s Notebook, 208; appointed Poet Laureate, 210; reassures Scott about Dubois’ article, 210; Carlisle writes to on STC’s opium addiction, 216; on STC with Morgans, 222; in Crabb Robinson’s Diaries, 223, 256; intercepts Burnett’s letter to STC, 230–1; letters to STC in London unopened, 230–1; advice to STC, 256; visits STC in London, 256; on Morgans’ hospitality to STC, 263; Shelley meets, 293, 456n; and STC’s quarrel with Wordsworth, 300; and STC’s report on popular unrest after Perceval murder, 309; reactionary Toryism, 310; and university education of STC’s sons, 317; finances, 328; STC borrows from, 329; and production of STC’s Remorse, 336, 338; and false report of STC’s suicide, 340; doubts on STC’s plans, 341; refuses to support annuity for STC, 356, 358; attacks STC’s opium addiction, 358–9; generosity to STC’s children, 359; and STC’s agreement with Murray, 366; reputation, 370; categorized as Lake poet, 377; in Biographia Literaria, 381, 396; disapproves of Hartley’s visit to STC at Calne, 385–6; combines wholeness with creative pleasure, 387; supports STC’s family, 415; on STC�
�s retreat to Highgate, 433, 452; payments from Murray, 437; dependability, 445; offers supportive review of Biographia Literaria, 446; STC sends second Lay Sermon to, 448; believes in mermaids, 497; informed of Hartley’s dismissal from Oriel, 514; STC cites in appeal to Oriel, 516; fails to accommodate Hartley, 532; as political reactionary, 546; “The Curse of the Kehema”, 210, 246; History of Brazil, 78, 198; Roderick, 369

 

‹ Prev