English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 3: Queen Anne and the GeorgesMitchell, Donald Grant
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English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 3: Queen Anne and the Georges
Mitchell, Donald Grant
English literature -- History and criticism; Great Britain -- Intellectual life
[3] S. T. Coleridge, b. 1772; d. 1834. Many of his works edited by H.
N. Coleridge, husband of his only daughter Sara. Special mention
should be made of the Coleridgean labors of that indefatigable worker,
the late J. Dykes Campbell.
[4] He had a son Hartley, whom Crabb Robinson describes in 1816 as "one
of the strangest boys I ever saw. He has the features of a foreign
Jew, with starched and affected manners." He also speaks of the other
son, Derwent, as a "hearty boy, with a good-natured expression." The
daughter--afterward Mrs. Henry Nelson Coleridge, editress of many of
her father's works (continues Robinson), "has a face of great
sweetness."
[5] Southey did not go to Keswick to reside until 1803-4. Coleridge,
however, was there as an occupant of a portion of the future Southey
home in 1800. Southey paid him a visit in the summer of 1801. See
Traill, chap. v. See also _Memorials of Coleorton_, passim.
[6] Probably some time between 1803 and 1806.
[7] Charles Lamb, b. 1775; d. 1834.
[8] William Wordsworth, b. 1770; d. 1850. _Evening Walk_ published
1793; _Lyrical Ballads_ (in conjunction with Coleridge), 1798;
_Excursion_, 1814; _White Doe of Rylstone_, 1815; first collected
edition of poems, 1836-37; _Life_ by W. H. Myers; a much fuller, but
somewhat muddled one, by William Knight, 3 vols,, 8vo, 1889. Dowden's
edition of Wordsworth's poems (Aldine Series) is latest and best.
[9] See Lamb's Letters, cited in Knight, vol. ii., p. 235.
[10] His wife was Mary Hutchinson, of Penrith. Their children were
John, b. 1803; Dorothy, b. 1804 (became Mrs. Quinlan and died before
her father); Thomas, b. 1806; Catharine, b. 1808; and William, b.
1810--the last being the only one who survived the poet.
[11] This based on "Mr. Rawnsley's Gleanings amongst the Villagers."
See _Athenæum_, February 23, 1889.
[12] There is a very interesting account of Wordsworth's home life,
etc., in Miss Martineau's _Autobiography_, vol. i., p. 504 _et
seq._--but very much colored, as all her pictures are, by her own
megrims and disposition to sneer at all the world--except Miss
Martineau.
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INDEX.
Adams, John, 187.
Addison, Joseph, 4.
Aikin, Dr., 273-276.
Allston, Washington, 316.
Anne, Queen, the times of, 1-3.
Austen, Jane, her life and personality, 265-267; opinions of Walter
Scott, Macaulay, and Miss Mitford concerning, 266, 267; her _Pride and
Prejudice_, 268; _Persuasion_ and _Northanger Abbey_, 268, 269; her
qualities, 270, 271; burial-place, 270.
Austen, Lady, and William Cowper, 246, 247.
Barbauld, Mrs., 273-276.
Beauclerk, Topham, 114-116.
Beckford, William, and his _Vathek_, 285-291.
Bentley, Richard, his _Siris: A chain of Philosophical Reflections and
Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tarwater_, 9; writes on the
_Epistles of Phalaris_, 9-11; his family, 10; portrait of, 10, 11; as a
writer and as a man, 11, 12.
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