Chapter IV
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[150] Here seems an allusion to an anti-utilitarian maxim of Bacon's, which is very expressive of my Father's turn of mind:--Et tamen quemadmodum luci magnam habemus gratiam, quod per eam vias inire, artes, exercere, legere, nos invicem dignoscere possimus, et nihilominus _ipsa visio lucis res praestantior est et pulchrior, quam multiplex ejus usus; ita certe ipsa contemplatio rerum, prout sunt, sine superstitione aut impostura, errore aut confusione, in se ipsa magis digna est, quam universus inventorum fructus_. Novum Organum, Part of Aph. CXXIX.
[151] From a volume containing _The Search after Proserpine_, _Recollections of Greece_ and other Poems by Aubrey de Vere, author of _The Fall of Rora_.
APPENDIX AND ADDITIONAL NOTES
APPENDIX
LETTERS CONTAINED IN THIS WORK DRAWN FROM JOSEPH COTTLE'S _EARLY RECOLLECTIONS_ (1837), AND HIS _REMINISCENCES_ (1847)
_E. R._ _REM._ LETTER 15 Vol. i, p. 150 p. 74 " 16 " 184 97 " 17 " 164 84 " 18 " 165 85 " 19 " 166 85 " 20 " 169 87 " 21 " 172 90 " 22 " 171 88 " 23 " 140 67 " 24 " 137 65 " 25 " 141 68 " 30 " 144 70 " 31 " 145 70 " 32 " 159 81 " 38 " 173 90 " 41 " 209 115 " 48 " 197 107 " 49 " 229, 188 130, 100 " 50 " 230 130 " 51 " 219 122 " 52 " 213 118 " 53 " 224 126 " 54 " 232 132 " 55 " 211 117 " 56 " 190 102 " 57 " 239 136
_E. R._ _REM._ LETTER 58 Vol. i, p. 240 p. 137 " 59 " 246 140 " 60 " 230 131 " 61 " 250 142 " 62 " 274 149 " 63 " 252 144 " 64 " 254 148 " 65 " 253 144 " 66 " 234 133 " 67 " 255 149 " 68 " 251 143 " 69 " 288 159 " 70 " 305 171 " 71 -- 172 " 72 " 307 173 " 74 " 307 173 " 76 " 294, 251 164, 143 " 77 " 296 165 " 78 " 297 165 " 79 " 300 167 " 80 " 311 176 " 81 " 315 179 " 85 -- 425 " 88 -- 429 " 89 -- 432 " 93 -- 435 " 99 -- 438 " 100 -- 453 " 104 Vol. ii, p. 18, 254 " 111 -- 443 " 112 -- 448 " 113 -- 450 " 114 -- 454 " 115 -- 458 " 116 -- 459 " 117 -- 461 " 118 -- 463 " 122 -- 465
LETTER 123 Vol. i, p. 201 p. 109 " 124 -- 467 " 125 -- 471 " 128 -- 472 " 131 Vol. ii, p. 75 305 " 132 Vol. i, p. 204 112 " 133 Vol. ii, p. 83 314 " 134 116 337 " 135 131 345 " 136 126 341 " 139 133 346 " 153 -- 351 " 154 146 357 " 155 112 336 " 156 147 358 " 157 -- 359 " 158 155 366 " 159 160 370 " 160 162 371 " 161 164 380 " 162 165 380 " 163 185 394 " 164 174 386 " 165 177 389 " 219 193 397
Letters Nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 30, 32, and 38 were included in the _Biographical Supplement_. The text of these eleven letters is that of the _Supplement_.
LETTERS IN THE _LIFE OF WILLIAM GODWIN_, NOT INCLUDED IN THIS WORK NOR IN _LETTERS OF S. T. COLERIDGE_ (1895)
1. Letter to Godwin, vol. ii, p. 1. 8 January 1800 2. " " " 2. 3 March 1800 3. " " " 6. 11 September 1800 4. Letter to Godwin, vol. ii, p. 13. 9 December 1800 5. " " " 15. 17 December 1800 6. " " " 79. 8 July 1801 7. " " " 81. 22 Sept. 1801 8. " " " 83. 19 Nov. 1801
MEMORIALS OF COLEORTON (1887)
LETTERS BY COLERIDGE TO SIR GEORGE AND LADY BEAUMONT, NOT INCLUDED IN _LETTERS OF S. T. COLERIDGE_ (1895)
1. Letter to Sir George and Lady Beaumont, vol. i, p. 1. 12 August, 1803 2. vol. i, p. 6. 22 September 1803 3. " " " vol. i, p. 12. 1 October 1803 4. " Sir George Beaumont, vol. i, p. 38. 30 January 1804 5. " " " p. 43. 1 February 1804 6. " Lady Beaumont, vol. i, p. 52. 5 March 1804 7. " Sir George Beaumont, vol. i, p. 55. 8 March 1804 8. p. 58. 6 April 1804 9. " Sir George and Lady Beaumont, vol. i, p. 69. Malta, 1 August 1804 10. " Sir George Beaumont, vol. ii, p. 44. 18 February 1808 11. " " " p. 63. 17 December 1808 12. p. 69. 2 January 1809 13. " Lady Beaumont, p. 96. 21 January 1810 14. 124. 16 March 1811 15. " Sir George and Lady Beaumont, vol. ii, p. 164. (1806 or 1811?) 16. Letter to Sir George Beaumont, vol. ii, p. 171. 9 June 1814 17. " Lady Beaumont, vol. ii, p. 194. January 1821? 18. " " " 246. 18 March 1826
LETTERS IN _THOMAS POOLE AND HIS FRIENDS_, BY MRS. HENRY SANDFORD (1888), NOT CONTAINED IN THE BIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT, NOR IN _LETTERS OF S. T. C._ (1895).
Vol. i, p.10, S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole -- 1799 154, " " ? Aug. 1796 179, " " 15 Nov. 1796 180, " " (Nov.) 1796 271, " " June 1798 295, " " 8 April 1799 300, " Mrs. Coleridge 6 May 1799 Vol. ii, 1-2, " Thomas Poole -- January 1800 5, " " 14 February 1800 7, " " -- Mch. 1800 8-9, " " 31 Mch. 1800 10-11, " " 14 August 1800 15 " " -- October 1800 22-3, " " 7 January 1801 26, " " 1 February 1801 30, " " 13 February 1801 40, " " Mch.-Apl. 1801 44, " " Apl.-May 1801 48, " " 17 May 1801 57, " " 1 July 1801 63, " " 7 Sept. 1801 66, " " 5 October 1801 71, " " 21 October 1801 79, " " 7 May 1802 99, " " 17 Dec. 1802 101, " " 29 Dec. 1802 226, " " 4 Dec. 1808 258, note, and 279-80, " " July 1821? 280, " " 2 January 1827
LETTERS CONTAINED IN BRANDL'S _LIFE OF COLERIDGE_ (1887)
p. 267, Coleridge to Samuel Purkis, of Brentford. (Autumn) 1800 323, " H. C. Robinson. 18 Nov. 1811 362, " H. C. Robinson. 20 June 1817 354, " H. C. Robinson. 3 Decr. 1817 357, " John Morgan. 5 January 1818 351, " John Taylor Coleridge. 8 May 1825 373, " Basil Montagu. 1 Feby. 1826
LETTERS CONTAINED IN PROFESSOR KNIGHT'S _LIFE OF WORDSWORTH_, NOT APPEARING IN THIS WORK, OR _LETTERS OF S. T. C._ (1895)
Vol. i, p. 180, Coleridge to W. Wordsworth. -- 1798 p. 184, " " -- 1798 p. 184, " " -- 1799 p. 184, " " -- 1799 p. 195, " " Summer 1799 p. 198, " Dorothy Wordsworth -- 1799 p. 201, " W. Wordsworth. 12 Oct. 1799 p. 201, " " Dec. 1799 p. 202, " " Feby. 1800 Vol. ii, p. 13, " " 16 Feby. 1804 p. 14, " " 4 April 1804 p. 100, " " Spring 1808 p. 172, " John Morgan 27 Mch. 1812
LETTERS CONTAINED IN _WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND HIS SONS_, BY MRS. OLIPHANT (1897)
Vol. i, p. 408, S. T. Coleridge to William Blackwood. (Spring) 1819 " 412, " " 30 June 1819 " 413, " " 24 Feby. 1826 " 414, " " 20 October 1829 " 416, " " 15 May 1830 " 419, " " 26 May 1832
LETTERS CONTAINED IN THE _LIFE OF ALARIC WATTS_, BY HIS SON, ALARIC ALFRED WATTS (1884)
Vol. i, p. 152, S. T. Coleridge to Alaric Watts. (1823-1824) " 243, " " (1827) " 288, " " (1827) " 290, " " 1 January 1828 " 291, " " 14 September 1828
LETTERS CONTAINED IN _JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE AND HIS FRIENDS_, BY GABRIELLE FESTING, 1899.
Chap. XI, p. 218, S. T. Coleridge to J. H. Frere. (-- 1816) " 220, " George Frere. Dec. 1816 " 221, " " 19 Dec. 1816 " 222, " J. H. Frere. 27 June 1817 " 224, " " 16 July 1817 " 227, " " (-- 1827) " 228, " " (no date)
ADDITIONAL NOTES
_Biographical Supplement._--The original Text of the Supplement of the _Biographia Literaria_, 2 vols., 1847, by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Sara Coleridge, is as follows:
Pp. 311-35, vol. i, pp. 1-29 to "5th of February 1791" of this work. 335-38, " 30-34 to "destined to turn" of this work. 338-44, " 35-41 to "pantisocratical basis" of this work. 344-45, " 44-46 to "22nd of September 1794" of this work. 345-48, " 47-51 to "S. T. Coleridge" of this work. 348-50, " 53-56 to "expected" " 350-55, " 56-62 to "S. T. C." " 355-60, " 63-68 to "S. T. Coleridge" " 360-62, " 71-74 to "S.T. Coleridge" " 362-3, " 76-76 to "never arrived" " 363-77, " 77-92 to "latest convictions" " 377-86, " 96-105 to "S. C." o " 386-90, " 114-119 to "plaintive warbling" " 391, " 121 to "were written" " 391-411, vol. ii, 76-99 to "name behind" " 411-21, " 104-115 to "candid" " 422-25, " 280-284 to "_Demosius and Mystes_" of this work. 426-32, " 305-312 to "_Fall of Rora_" of this work.
_Cottle's Text._--Cottle has been severely blamed for tampering with the text of the letters of Coleridge. The most glaring changes occur in Letter 32, in which Cottle inserts the names of Lamb, Wordsworth and Dr. Parr, and in Letter 123, in which he alters his own name for that of Biggs, his partner. His changes consist mostly of omissions. Letters 99, 114, 117, 122, which are given in full in T. Litchfield's _Tom Wedgwood the First Photographer_, are the principal sufferers from Cottle's treatment. It cannot be said that these omissions amount to a serious charge against Cottle. They were made to avoid bringing in the names of people still alive or whose near relations might object to their names figuring in a publication, and also to avoid obtruding Coleridge's complaints about his ill-health and his own treatment into notice. His tampering with the letters of Southey, in which he makes Southey say what he never wrote, is not, of course, defensible (see Dykes Campbell's _Life of Coleridge_, p. 204 _note_). Cottle's longest omission is in Letter 99, to Wedgwood, where Coleridge quotes what Lamb had written to him about Cottle's own poem _Alfred_ (see Ainger's _Letters of Lamb_, i, 138). The omission of such a passage was only to be expected; Cottle was not going to act as his own hangman. Henry Nelson Coleridge, Thomas Noon Talfourd, and even Canon Ainger, and indeed nearly all editors of letters published during the first half of the nineteenth century, took the liberty to discriminate what should be communicated to the public in volumes such as Cottle's.
_Vol. I, p. 50._--The Summer of 1795 should be "the Autumn of 1794;" see _Thomas Poole and his Friends_, I, 95.
_Vol. I, p. 62._--Letter 24 is placed by Cottle in the spring of 1796, but being dated from Stowey, it is possible that this letter may belong to 1797. The revision of the _Religious Musings_ mentioned in the letter would suit 1797 as well as 1796, for the text of that poem differed very widely from that of the First Edition.
_Vol. I, p. 97._--The numbered poems in Letter 42, are:
Effusion 27. _The Rose_, "As late each flower that sweetest blows." 28. _The Kiss_, "One kiss, dear Maid! I said, and sigh'd." Sonnets, 45. To Bowles. 59. "Thou gentle look that didst my soul beguile." 60. "Pale Roamer thro' the night, thou poor Forlorn!" 61. "Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled." Sonnets, 64. "Thou bleedest my poor Heart! and thy distress." 65. To Schiller. 66. Brockley Coombe.
_Vol. I, p. 292_, _Letter_ 117. Books from Wordsworth's Library.--"Perhaps one of the most interesting books in the whole selection is Sir T. Browne's _Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors_, the folio edition of 1658, which contains a long letter to Sara Hutchinson, relative principally to many curious passages in the work, also several MS. marginal notes and corrections, all in the handwriting of S. T. Coleridge, and autographs of Charles Lamb and Mary Wordsworth. The copy of Sir Thomas Browne's _Religio Medici_, 1669, contains copious marginal and other MS. annotations by Coleridge, and has this inscription inside the cover, 'Sara Hutchinson from S. T. C.'"--_Athenæum_, No. 3579, May 30, 1896.
_Vol. II, p. 262_, _Contemplative melancholy_.--The phrase is a variation of "speculative gloom," which Coleridge used in his original prospectus of the _Friend_, objected to by Francis Jeffrey (see Letters, ii, 536, _note_), and afterwards changed into "_Dejection of Mind_" in the printed Prospectus (see Letter 143, vol. ii, p. 51). The phrase "speculative gloom" was derived from Warton's _Ode for the New Year_ 1786 (which Coleridge took as his model for his own _Ode to the Departing Year_):
"Hence then, each vain complaint, away, Each captious doubt, and cautious fear! Nor blast the new-born year, That anxious waits the Spring's slow-shooting ray: Nor deem that Albion's honours cease to bloom. With candid glance, th' impartial Muse, Invoked on this auspicious morn, The present scans, the distant scene pursues, And breaks Opinion's speculative gloom: Interpreter of ages yet unborn, Full right she spells the characters of Fate, That Albion still shall keep her wonted state! Still in eternal glory shine, Of Victory the sea-beat shrine; The source of every splendid art, Of old, of future worlds the universal mart."
_Vol. II, p. 294._ _The Objective and the Subjective in Art._--Goethe and Schiller always insisted upon the _Objective_ as the highest form of art; many passages occur in their letters regarding the distinction. Schiller says, 28th November 1796: "As regards _Wallenstein_, it is at present progressing very slowly, as I am chiefly occupied with the raw material, which is not yet quite collected; but I still feel equal to it, and I have obtained many a clear and definite idea in regard to its form. What I _wish_ and _ought_ to do, and what I _have_ to do, has now become pretty clear to me; it now merely depends upon accomplishing what I wish and what I ought to do by using what I have in hand before me. As regards the _spirit_ in which I am working, you will probably be satisfied with what I have done. I shall have no difficulty in keeping my subject outside of myself, and in only giving the object."--_Bohn Library Translation_, Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, i, 263-4.
_Vol. II, p. 297._--Poems of Coleridge differing in their Texts in the Editions of 1829 and 1834:
_The Raven_ (two lines). _Time Real and Imaginary_ (one word). _Songs of the Pixies._ _Lines on an Autumnal Evening_ (one word). _Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross._ _Monody on the Death of Chatterton_ (11 lines). _Sonnet on Kosciusko_ (one line). _Sonnet, "Pale roamer through the night."_ _Brockley Coombe._ _Religious Musings_ (a few words). _Destiny of Nations_ (differs slightly). _Christabel_ (slightly). _Ode to the Departing Year_ (sixth line). _The Devil's Thoughts._ _To the Rev. George Coleridge_ (one word). _The Nightingale_ (one word). _Lines written at Elbingerode_ (one word). _A Tombless Epitaph_ (one word). _To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the author_ (one word). _Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire._ _Dejection, an Ode._ _Lines on Berengarius._ _France, an Ode._
INDEX
Adams, Dr. Joseph Adams, recommends Coleridge to James Gillman, ii, 149.
Addington, Right Honourable H., Prime Minister of England in 1801, i, 286.
Aders, Mrs., ii, 217.
_Aeolian Harp, The_, poem by Coleridge, i, 167; ii, 110.
Aesthetic, The, ii, 237.
_Aids to Reflection_, origin of, ii, 279-84, 286, 293.
Ainger, Canon, _Letters of Lamb_, Preface, xi, xvii; i, 92.
_Albion, The_, newspaper, i, 247.
Alfoxden, ii, 31.
_Alice du Clos_, a ballad by Coleridge, ii, 293-4.
Alison, Sir Archibald, Historian (1792-1867), on Coleridge, ii, 89.
_Allegorical Lines_, "_Myrtle Leaf that ill besped_," i, 126.
_Allegoric Vision_, ii, 113.
Allen, Robert, early friend of Coleridge, ii, 250.
Allsop, Thomas, friend of Coleridge, Preface, vi, ix, xvi; ii, 158-80; introduces himself to Coleridge, 158; birth of his daughter, 259, 267-8, 278, 279. See also "Letters."
Allsop, Mrs., ii, 250, 258, 267-8, 289.
Allston, Washington, American Artist, i, 115; ii, 6, 136, 300.
Amiel, Henri Frederic (1821-1881), and Coleridge, Preface, xiv; ii, 139.
_Amulet, The_, Preface, viii; ii, 292.
_Ancient Mariner, The_, i, 150, 159, 160; ii, 104, 111, 293-4.
_Anima Poetae_, by E. H. Coleridge, Preface, vii, xi, xvii.
_Anniversary, The_, an annual, ii, 292.
_Annual Anthology, The_, i, 195.
Anster, Professor John (1793-1867), translator of _Faust_, ii, 247.
_Antonio_, a tragedy by William Godwin, i, 201, 247.
Aristotle, i, 271.
Ashe, Thomas (1836-1889), Poet and Editor of the _Aldine_ Edition of Coleridge's Poems and other works, Preface, xix; ii, 232, 238; his opinion of Coleridge's Poetry, 294.
_Athenæum_, quoted, Preface, xi; ii, 36-7.
Atonement, Coleridge's Theory of, ii, 279.
Aynard, Joseph, _La Vie d'un Poète_, Preface, xix.
Ball, Sir Alexander, governor of Malta, appoints Coleridge his Secretary, ii, 3.
Banks, Sir Joseph (1744-1820), i, 268.
Barbauld, Mrs. (1743-1825), i, 76.
Barr, Mr., of Worcester, entertains Coleridge, i, 58.
_Barrister's Hints, A_, Coleridge's Notes on, ii, 305.
Baxter, Coleridge's Notes on, ii, 305.
Beaumont, Sir George, and Lady, Coleridge's opinion of, i, 300; ii, 33, 36, 136, 146.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Coleridge's Notes on, ii, 305.
Beddoes, Dr. (1760-1808), acquaintance of Coleridge, i, 52, 66, 72, 76, 83, 84, 155, 206, 245; ii, 28, 30; death of, 45.
Bedell, Coleridge's Notes on, ii, 305.
Bell, Dr. Andrew (1753-1832), Founder of the Madras System of Education, ii, 34, 74.
Berdmore, Mr., a friend of Southey, i, 35, 37.
_Berengarius, Lines suggested by the last words of_, a poem by Coleridge, ii, 113, 292.
Berkeley, Bishop (1685-1753), ii, 146.
Bernard, Sir Thomas, ii, 41.
_Bertram_, Coleridge's Critique on, ii, 82, 220.
Betham, Matilda, Portrait Painter, Coleridge writes letters to, ii, 38.
Bethell, Mr., of Yorkshire, stands along with Coleridge for the Craven Scholarship, i, 30.
Bibliographies of Coleridge, Preface, xviii.
Biggs, Mr. Cottle's partner, i, 286.
_Bijou, The_, annual, ii, 292.
_Biographia Literaria_, by S. T. Coleridge, Preface, xvi, ii, 86, 93, 104; origin of, 146, 169.
_Biographia Literaria_, Supplement of. See _Preface_ and _Appendix_.
Blackwood, William (1776-1834), Publisher, Coleridge's Letters to, ii, 232, 293.
_Blackwood's Magazine_, Coleridge contributes to, Preface, vii, viii; ii, 213, 232, 238, 268, 293.
_Blackwood, William, and his Sons_, by Mrs. Oliphant, Letters of Coleridge contained in. See _Preface_ and _Appendix_.
_Blossoming of the Solitary Date Tree_, poem by Coleridge, ii, 112.
Blumenbach, Professor J. H., Naturalist (1752-1840), i, 196.
_Bookman, The_, Preface, xi; quoted, i, 51.
_Borderers, The_, drama by Wordsworth, i, 137, 141, 154, 155, 157.
Bowden, Ann, mother of S. T. Coleridge, i, 3; ancestry of, 5; anecdotes of, 19-20.
Bowles, William Lisle, Poet (1762-1850), i, 139.
Bowyer (or Boyer), Rev. James, Teacher of Coleridge at Christ's Hospital, i, 23; ii, 301.
Brabant, Dr., of Devizes, Coleridge writes to, ii, 141, 148.
Brandl, Professor Alois, of Prague, biographer of Coleridge, his _Life of Coleridge_, Preface, x, xix; ii, 302.
_Brazil, History of_, Southey's, ii, 41.
Brent, Charlotte, sister of Mrs. Morgan, ii, 102, 140, 148.
_British Critic, The_, i, 246.
Britton, Mr., Coleridge writes letters to, ii, 165-9.
Brooke, Stopford A., his Introduction to the _Golden_ Book of Coleridge, Preface, xx.
Brookes, Mr., a College acquaintance of Southey, i, 35, 37.
_Brothers, The_, a poem by Wordsworth, i, 200, 229, 240.
Browne, Wilfred, his _From Ottery to Highgate_, Preface, xx.
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), Coleridge on, i, 293; Notes on, ii, 305.
Bruno Giordano, Philosopher (died 1600), Coleridge's philosophy influenced by, ii, 146.
Buller, Sir Francis, procures for Coleridge a presentation to Christ's Hospital, i, 19.
Burgess, Sir James Bland (1752-1824), his _Richard the First_, i, 243.
Burke and Pitt, Coleridge on, ii, 55.
Burnett, George, one of the Pantisocrats, i, 45, 49, 65, 132, 133-4.
Butler, Samuel (1774-1839), gains the Craven Scholarship, i, 30.
Byron, Lord, i, 235; attends Coleridge's Lectures, ii, 73; on _Zapolya_, 107; Coleridge's description of, 157, 220.
Caine, Mr. Hall, his _Life of Coleridge_, Preface, xix; on Coleridge and Southey, ii, 131.
"Caius Gracchus," Letter to, i, 69.
Calvert, William, i, 222-4.
_Cambridge Intelligencer_, i, 67, 68.
Cambridge, Coleridge at, i, 29, 51.
Campbell, J. Dykes, _Life of Coleridge_, Preface, x, xix; i, 140, 163.
Campbell, Thomas, Poet (1774-1844), his _Pleasures of Hope_, i, 229.
Canova, Antonio, Italian Sculptor (1757-1822), Coleridge meets in Rome, ii, 6.
"Cantab," Letter to, in the _Friend_, ii, 63.
_Cary, H. F., Memoir of_, Preface, x.
Carlisle, Sir Antony, i, 220.
Carlyle, Thomas, visits Coleridge in 1824, ii, 279, 296.
Carlyon, Clement (1777-1864), his _Early Years and Late Reflections_, Preface, xvi; meets Coleridge in Germany, i, 162; describes Coleridge at the University of Göttingen and his ascent of the Brocken, 167; ii, 279, 296.
Caroline, Queen, ii, 202.
Casimir, Latin Poet, Coleridge's Ode after, i, 34.
Catcott, George, of the Bristol Library, Coleridge sends a letter to, i, 128.
_Catullian Hendecasyllables_, poem by Coleridge, ii, 111.
Chalmers, Dr. Thomas (1780-1847), Free Churchman, pays a visit to Coleridge, ii, 279, 299.
Chateaubriand, F. R. (1768-1848), quoted, ii, 139.
_Chatterton, Monody on the death of_, first published, i, 68, 73, 144, 154; revision of, 1829, ii, 133, 297.
_Christabel_, running up to 1,300 lines, i, 206-7; Coleridge unable to finish, 208; how Coleridge wrote the _Second Part_, 212-13, 221; read to Sir Walter Scott, 228; Southey on, 240; Coleridge's recitation of, 251, 275; published in 1816, ii, 104-5, 111, 112, 146; Coleridge hopes to complete, 188, 211, 214-15; estimate of, 293-4. See also _Preface_, xi, xviii.
_Christianity considered as Philosophy and the only Philosophy_, Coleridge's projected _magnum opus_, ii, 142.
Christ's Hospital, Coleridge at, i, 19-22; ii, 250, 301.
Chubb, Mr., of Bridgwater, Coleridge pays a visit to, ii, 27.
_Church and State, On the Constitution of_, by Coleridge, ii, 284, 298.
Clarkson, Thomas, the Abolitionist (1760-1846), ii, 36, 38.
Clarkson, Mrs., Preface, xii; ii, 38.
Clevedon, Coleridge resides at, i, 49, 50, 60.
Cobbett, William (1762-1835), Coleridge on, ii, 43, 173, 198.
_Coleorton, Memorials of_, Preface, x, xvii; ii, 233; see _Appendix_.
Coleridge, Ann (Nancy), sister of Coleridge, death of, at twenty-one, 8; letter to, from her brother Francis, 10.
Coleridge, Berkeley (second child), born, i, 162; died, 163.
Coleridge, David Hartley, Poet (eldest son), (1796-1849), born, i, 90, 131, 185; described by his father, 201, 215, 220; and the moon, 221; ii, at Oxford, 189, 190, 200, 257.
Coleridge, Derwent (third son), (1800-1883), Preface, xix; birth, i, 207, 216; ii, 178, 201, 257.
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley (grandson), authority on S. T. Coleridge and his works, see _Preface_, xiv-xv, xviii.
Coleridge, Rev. George (brother), i, 29.
Coleridge, Henry Nelson (1798-1843) (nephew and son-in-law), author of the _Table Talk of S. T. C._, meets Sara Coleridge, ii, 268; origin of _Table Talk_, 278-9; see also _Preface_, v-vi.
Coleridge, Rev. John (father), i, 3; his publications, 4-7; his marriage and children, 6-8; death of, 18.
Coleridge, Mrs. John (mother), i, 3, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16-18, 19.
_Coleridge, Samuel Taylor_: his five autobiographical letters to Thomas Poole, i, 3-22; born 21st October 1772, 3; ancestry and parentage, 3-6; writes autobiographical letters to Thomas Poole, 5; baptised, 9; child life of, 9-22; at the reading school, 11; early reading, 12; admitted to the Grammar School, 13; anecdotes of, 15; his father resolves to make him a parson, 17; recollections of the Vast, 17; sent to Christ's Hospital, 19; sent to Hertford, 20; entered at Jesus College, Cambridge, 29; gains Sir William Browne's gold medal for the Greek Ode, 30; stands for the Craven Scholarship, 30; writes a Greek Ode on Astronomy, 31; account of, by a fellow student (C. V. Le Grice) at college, 31; at Frend's trial, 31; at Ottery St. Mary in 1793, 32; returns to Cambridge and enlists in the 15th Light Dragoons, 32; comes back to Cambridge, 33; espouses Unitarianism, 33; goes to Oxford and makes the acquaintance of Southey, 34; leaves Oxford in company with John Hucks and makes a tour in Wales, 35; tells an anecdote about his walking stick, 39; goes to Bristol to meet Southey and is introduced to Sarah Fricker, 41; along with Southey projects a scheme of Platonic Republicanism named Pantisocracy, 41-9; delivers lectures in Bristol, 48; marries Sarah Fricker on 4th October 1795, 49; resides at Clevedon, 49-50; projects a political journal called the _Watchman_, 50; proposes to start a school, 51; becomes acquainted with Joseph Cottle, publisher and poet, Bristol, 51; and John James Morgan, 52; and Dr. Beddoes and the Wedgwoods, 53; preaches with remarkable effect, 54; goes on a tour to the North to canvass for subscribers for the _Watchman_, 54-61; meets Erasmus Darwin, 57; meets James Montgomery, the poet, 59; returns to Bristol and resides at Redcliffe Hill, 61; gets ready for publication his first volume of poems, 61; publishes the _Watchman_, 64; removes to Kingsdown, Bristol, 64; attacks William Godwin in the _Watchman_, 69; projects various literary, etc., schemes, 74-5, 78-9; Tom Poole collects an annuity for, 80; proposes to settle at Nottingham, 83; proposes to take to teaching, 85-6; goes to Darley to see Mrs. Evans, 85-6; returns to Bristol, 88; goes to Birmingham to see the father of Charles Lloyd, 89; his first child is born, 90; quarrels with and is reconciled to Southey, 92; writes his _Ode to the Departing Year_, and dedicates it to Thomas Poole, 112; removes early in January 1797 to Stowey, Somersetshire, 121; engages to publish a revised edition of his Poems, 122; and sends poems to Cottle for his criticisms, 125; invited by Sheridan to write a Tragedy, 127; writes a curious letter to George Catcott of the Bristol Library, 128; commences his tragedy _Osorio_, 129; has a droll dialogue with a countrywoman, 132; writes a humorous letter to Cottle about mice, 133; meets Dorothy Wordsworth, and describes her to Cottle, 136; meets John Thelwall, the democrat, 138-9; goes to London with _Osorio_, 140; meets W. Linley, Sheridan's brother-in-law and secretary, 141; his _Osorio_ rejected by Sheridan, 142; is offered but declines £100 from Thomas Wedgwood, 143; has conferred on him a pension of £150 a year from Thomas and Josiah Wedgwood, 144; his omnivorous reading, 146; along with Wordsworth projects and publishes the volume of the _Lyrical Ballads_, 147; anecdote of how the three bards were taught a lesson by a servant wench, 148; projects a Third Edition of his Poems, 153-4; has an estrangement with Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, 161; his second child born, 162; visits Germany, 162; ascends the Brocken, 167; projects to write a life of Lessing, 180; returns to England, 182; works along with Southey and publishes _The Devil's Thoughts_, 182; visits Ottery and Stowey and Sockburn, and meets Sarah Hutchinson, 182; contributes to the _Morning Post_, 185; meets Godwin, 185; translates Schiller's _Wallenstein_, 185; meets Horne Tooke, 188; leaves London for Stowey, 193; settles at Greta Hall, Keswick, 197; adventure of, among the mountains, 210; projects a work on the _Rise and Condition of the German Boors_, 216; makes pedestrian tours with the Wordsworths, 219; proposes to study chemistry, 222; proposes to write an essay _Concerning Poetry and the Nature of the Pleasure derived from it_, 223; meets John Stoddart and gives him a copy of _Christabel_, 228; laments the loss of his Poetic Faculty, 229; his ideal of _The Permanent_, 233-6; in ill health, 243; thinks of emigrating, 248; visited by Samuel Rogers, 249; goes again to London, 251; his projected Epic, _The Siege of Jerusalem_, 254; caught in a tempest among the hills, 258-9; translates Gessner's _Erste Schiffer_, 269; publishes a Third Edition of his Poems, 270; goes on a tour to Wales with Tom Wedgwood, 270; goes on a tour to Scotland with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 270; projects a work on _Logic_, 271; writes again for the _Morning Post_, 275; projects a _Bibliotheca Britannica_, 279; lives with the Wordsworths (1803), 288; back to London, 289; invited by John Stoddart to Malta, 295; sails for Malta, ii, 1; reaches Valetta, 18th May 1804, 3; becomes acquainted with Sir Alexander Ball, 3; made interim-government secretary of Malta, 3; visits Sicily and ascends Etna, 4; goes to Rome and meets Baron Von Humboldt, Ludwig Ticck, Washington Allston, Canova and Washington Irving, 6; returns to England, August 1806, 6-8; goes to Coleorton and hears Wordsworth's _Prelude_ read, 8; visits Poole at Stowey in 1807, 9; writes a long Theological Letter to Joseph Cottle, 13; offered £300 by Thomas De Quincey, 27; delivers Lectures in 1808 at the Royal Institution on Poetry, Shakespeare, etc., 33; meets Dr. Andrew Bell, founder of the Madras system of Education, and injudiciously attacks Lancaster, 34; meets Mary Evans (Mrs. Todd) his early sweetheart (1804-8), 36-7; projects and publishes the _Friend_, 38-65; writes Letters to the _Courier_ in support of the Spaniards, 65; has a quarrel with Wordsworth, 66-73; his translation of Gessner's First Mariner, 68-70; drifts away from his wife, 100-3; leaves the Lake Country in the Spring of 1812, 103; delivers Lectures 12th May to 3rd June, at Willis's Rooms, 116; gives a fourth course of Lectures between 3rd November 1812 and 29th January 1813, 116; meets Madame de Staël, 117; goes to Bristol and delivers his fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth courses of Lectures, October 1813-April 1814, 117; corresponds with Cottle about his Opium habit, 117-30; projects a translation of Goethe's _Faust_, 136; contributes _Essays on the Fine Arts_ to Felix Farley's _Bristol Journal_, 136; physical cause of his inability to carry out his many projects, 137-9; his political change from Radicals to temperate Conservatism, 141; advocates at Calne the abolition of the corn duties, 141; proposes to start a school in Bristol, 145; compiles _Sibylline Leaves_, and writes his _Biographia Literaria_, 146; writes _Zapolya_, 147; goes to Highgate and settles down in the house of James Gillman, 149; again delivers Lectures on Shakespeare, 27th January to 13th March 1818, 152; gives an account of Lord Byron, 157; meets and forms a friendship with Thomas Allsop, 158; delivers his tenth course of Lectures, December 1818-April 1819, 163; his eleventh course at the same time, 163; publishes his _Essay on Method_, 165; loses through the bankruptcy of Rest and Fenner, publishers, 171-2; meets Sir Walter Scott in London in 1820, 178-81; goes to Oxford, 201-2; meets Cottle for the last time in 1821, 232; visits Ramsgate, 238; dines at Monkhouse's with Wordsworth, Rogers, and Moore, 272; gives a paper before the Royal Society of Literature on the _Prometheus_ of Aeschylus, 286; goes with Wordsworth on a Tour to the Rhine, 296; meets Thomas Colley Grattan and Julian Charles Young on the Continent, 296; collects his Poems in 1828, 1829, and 1834, 297; visited by Henry Blake McLellan, a young American, in 1832, 298-300; last letters of, 300-4; death of, on 25th July 1834, 305.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, on Acting and Playwriting, i, 208. on The Aesthetic, ii, 69, 237. on Atheism, i, 57. on Bacon and Plato, i, 272. on Baptism, i, 202, 207. on the Bible, ii, 15. on Books, i, 128. on Sir Thomas Browne, i, 293-5. on the Catholic Question, ii, 90-1. on Chaucer, i, 276-7. on Christianity, i, 93; ii, 10-13, 156, 175, 230-31. on Democrats, i, 138. on Epic Poem, Ideal of an, i, 130. on Eternal Punishment, ii, 11. on Chemistry, i, 245; ii, 44, 47. on Children, i, 55, 58, 165-6, 176, 201, 203, 218; ii, 259, 273, 289, 302-4. on the _Cid_, ii, 41. on Genius, i, 64; ii, 258. on German, i, 142, 180. on William Hazlitt, i, 283. on Himself, i, 5-22, 25, 74, 80-81, 88, 89, 90, 95, 96, 99-101, 106, 107-8, 110, 129, 152, 181, 186, 193, 198, 213-14, 220, 224, 228-9, 236, 244, 248, 252, 265, 275, 284, 289, 299; ii, 29, 31, 39, 49, 133, 135, 150-51, 159, 164, 167, 205, 207, 211-13, 253, 286. on Homer's _Banging Lie_, i, 269. on Mrs. Inchbald, i, 195. on Journals, ii, 42, 52, 54-5, 60, 64, 79, 92, 232-6. on the Joys of Journalism, i, 190. on Keswick and the Lake Country, i, 198, 214, 215, 237-8. on Logic and Philosophy, i, 271-2, 274; ii, 161-2, 165, 206, 267. on his _Magnum Opus_, ii, 209. on Maternal Love, ii, 239. on Metaphysics, i, 197, 202, 203-4, 210, 224. on Mice, i, 133. on Miracles, ii, 23-4. on Money, i, 191, 225. on Mountain-Climbing, i, 260-61. on Nature-God, ii, 224. on Natural Scenery, i, 51, 198, 200-1, 210-11, 221, 248, 262. on Novel reading, ii, 184, 206. on Omnipresent, The, i, 171, 174, 261. On Playwriting, i, 208. On Permanent, The, i, 233, 234; ii, 57-63. on the Ideal of a Poem, ii, 25-6. on Poetry, ii, 32, 153, 206. on Poetic Diction, i, 113, 142, 223, 269. on Population Question, i, 179, 187. on Prayer, ii, 132. on his Projects, i, 51, 52, 75, 78, 79, 86-7, 109, 127, 130, 180, 187, 196, 199, 216, 223, 254-5, 271-3, 279-81; ii, 32, 68, 69, 70, 142, 165, 188, 193, 203, 208; his _Magnum Opus_, 209, 211, 230, 248, 267-8, 285, 287-9. on the Quantocks, ii, 31. on Reason and Imagination, i, 29-30; ii, 224. on Review writing, ii, 72. on Rich and Poor, ii, 225. on the Sabbath, ii, 23. on Skating, i, 163-4. on Style, i, 187, 190, 205, 254; ii, 53, 59. on the Sublime and Beautiful, ii, 223. on Sympathy with the Ill in health, ii, 2. on the Trinity, ii, 14-22. on Unitarianism, ii, 13, 119. on the Vast, i, 17. on Woman, ii, 241-43. on Wordsworth, Dorothy, i, 136. on Wordsworth, William, i, 129, 135, 152, 157, 158, 199; ii, 164, 194-5. on his _Wallenstein_, i, 199, 213, 218.
Coleridge, Mrs. S.T. (_née_ Sarah Fricker, called "Sara"), meets Coleridge, i, 41, 43; married to Coleridge, 4th October 1795, 49, 60, 65, 73, 81, 83, 85, 86, 88; at Stowey, 123, 140, 153, 155, 162, 185, 195, 201, 203, 207, 218, 255, 263, 273, 288; ii, estrangement with Coleridge, 100-103; Coleridge's solicitude about, 127; comes to London and visits her husband and the Gillmans, 267, 268.
Coleridge, Sara (daughter), afterwards Mrs. Henry Nelson Coleridge, born, i, 270; on Daniel Stuart and her Father,