Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 2: being The Biographical Supplement of Coleridge's Biographia LiterariaColeridge, Samuel Taylor
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Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 2: being The Biographical Supplement of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Correspondence
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.
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