English Men of Letters: Coleridge. H. D. Traill
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H. D. Traill
English Men of Letters: Coleridge
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066149864
Table of Contents
Metaphysical and Theological Period.
Poetical Period.
Chapter I. 1772–1794.
Birth, parentage, and early years–Christ's Hospital–Jesus College, Cambridge.
Chapter II. 1794–1797.
The Bristol Lectures–Marriage–Life at Clevedon–The Watchman–Retirement to Stowey–Introduction to Wordsworth.
Chapter III. 1797–1799.
Coleridge and Wordsworth–Publication of the Lyrical Ballads–The Ancient Mariner–The first part of Christabel–Decline of Coleridge's poetic impulse–Final review of his poetry.
Critical Period.
Chapter IV. 1799–1800.
Visit to Germany–Life at Göttingen–Return–Explores the Lake country–London–The Morning Post–Coleridge as a journalist–Retirement to Keswick.
Chapter V. 1800–1804.
Life at Keswick–Second part of Christabel–Failing health–Resort to opium–The Ode to Dejection–Increasing restlessness–Visit to Malta.
Chapter VI. 1806–1809.
Stay at Malta–Its injurious effects–Return to England–Meeting with De Quincey–Residence in London–First series of lectures.
Chapter VII. 1809–1810.
Return to the Lakes–From Keswick to Grasmere–With Wordsworth at Allan Bank–The Friend–Quits the Lake country for ever.
Chapter VIII. 1810–1816.
London again–Second recourse to journalism–The Courier articles–The Shakespeare lectures–Production of Remorse–At Bristol again as lecturer–Residence at Calne–Increasing ill health and embarrassments–Retirement to Mr. Gillman's.
Metaphysical and Theological Period.
Chapter IX. 1816–1818.
Life at Highgate–Renewed activity–Publications and republications–The Biographia Literaria–The lectures of 1818–Coleridge as a Shakespearian critic.
Chapter X. 1818–1834.
Closing years–Temporary renewal of money troubles–The Aids to Refection–Growing weakness-Visit to Germany with the Wordsworths–Last illness and death.
Coleridge's metaphysics and theology–The Spiritual Philosophy of Mr. Green.
Coleridge's position in his later years–His discourse–His influence on contemporary thought–Final review of his intellectual work.
Index.
Coleridge.
Chapter I
Birth, parentage, and early years–Christ's Hospital–Jesus College, Cambridge.
[1772–1794.]
On the 21st of October 1772 there was added to that roll of famous Englishmen of whom Devonshire boasts the parentage a new and not its least illustrious name. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the son of the Rev. John Coleridge, vicar of Ottery St. Mary in that county, and head master of Henry VIII.'s Free Grammar School in the same town. He was the youngest