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Hitherto no attempt has been made to publish a collection of Coleridge’s Letters. A few specimens were published in his lifetime, both in his own works and in magazines, and, shortly after his death in 1834, a large number appeared in print. Allsop’s “Letters, Conversations, a...
Hitherto no attempt has been made to publish a collection of Coleridge’s Letters. A few specimens were published in his lifetime, both in his own works and in magazines, and, sh...
2. ii. 315) 63. CHAPTER II. EARLY PUBLIC LIFE, 1795-1796.4. CHAPTER III. THE STOWEY PERIOD, 1797-1798.5. i. 250) 2206. CHAPTER IV. A VISIT TO GERMANY, 1798-1799.7. CHAPTER V. FROM SOUTH TO NORTH, 1799-1800.8. CHAPTER VI. A LAKE POET, 1800-1803.9. CHAPTER IThe five autobiographical letters addressed to Thomas Poole were written at Nether Stowey, at irregular intervals during the years 1797-98. They are included in the first chapte...
10. book I will write more fully in my next letter (I think not so highly ofWhat have been your feelings concerning the War with America, which is now inevitable? To go from Hamburg will not only be a heavy additional expense, but dangerous and uncertai...
11. CHAPTER IIMY DEAR SIR,--Can you conveniently lend me five pounds, as we want a little more than four pounds to make up our lodging bill, which is indeed much higher than we expected; seve...
12. CHAPTER IIIMY DEAR FRIEND,--I was indeed greatly rejoiced at the first sight of a letter from you; but its contents were painful. Dear, dear Mrs. Estlin! Sara burst into an agony of tears...
13. CHAPTER IVThe letters which Coleridge wrote from Germany were, with few exceptions, addressed either to his wife or to Poole. They have never been published in full, but during his life a...
14. CHAPTER VI am doubtful, Southey, whether the circumstances which impel me to write to you ought not to keep me silent, and, if it were only a feeling of delicacy, I should remain silent,...
15. CHAPTER VIMY DEAR POOLE,--Your two letters[235] I received exactly four days ago--some days they must have been lying at Ambleside before they were sent to Grasmere, and some days at Gras...
16. Book I have suffered to remain suspended chiefly because the thoughtswhich had employed my sleepless nights during my illness were imperious over me; and though poverty was staring me in the face, yet I dared behold my image miniatured in the pup...
17. Part II., 405 n.;a fine edition proposed, 421, 422; 437 n., 523; C. quotes from, 609, 610; the broken friendship commemorated in, 609 n.; the copyright of, 669; the _Edinburgh Review’s_ unkind c...