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Annual Review, 46 Anster, John, 118 Aquinas, St Thomas, 44 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76282-3 — The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Worthen Index More Information Index Annual Review,46 Bowles, William, 98 Anster, John, 118 Bristol, 5, 6, 59, 90, 105, 129 Aquinas, St Thomas, 44 British Library, 59 Arabian Nights, The,1 Browne prize Aristophanes. See Frere, John STC wins, 19 Hookham Bruno, Giordano, 44 Ashe, Thomas Brussels, 123 Coleridge’sLecturesandNoteson Burdett, Sir Francis, 64 Shakspere,92 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 6, 11, 13, Asra. See Hutchinson, Sara and ‘Asra’ 26, 28 poems Don Juan,11 Augustine, St Confessions, 120 Calne, 72 Carlyle, John, 127 Ball, Sir Alexander, Governor of Malta, Carlyle, Thomas, 114, 124, 129 6, 63, 67 Cartwright, William, 44 Bamburgh Castle, 49 Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, 108 Bampton, 48 Charles I. See Eikon Basilike Bartram, William, 55, 56 Cheapside, 59 Bath, 129 Church of England, 1, 3, 4, 115, 121, Baxter, Andrew, 88, 129 122 Bayley, Peter Clarkson, Thomas, 19, 58 Poems,46 Cobbett, William, 117 Beaumont, Sir George and Lady Coburn, Kathleen, 107, 135 Margaret, 34 Coleorton, 58, 69 Beer, John, 120 Coleridge, Ann (STC’s mother), 1, 2 Berkeley, George (Bishop), 12, 47, Coleridge, Berkeley (STC’s son), 52 107 Coleridge, Derwent (STC’s son), 52, Berkeley,Richard,128 64, 78, 81 Bertozzi, Cecilia, 2 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley (STC’s Birmingham, 86, 107 great-nephew), 59, 61, 92 Bode, Christoph, 128 Coleridge, Frank (STC’s brother), 1 Bollingen edition of STC’s works, ix, Coleridge, George (STC’s brother), 2 61, 130, 131 Coleridge, Hartley (STC’s son), 31, 64, Borrowdale, 41, 54 78, 79, 86 142 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76282-3 — The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Worthen Index More Information Index 143 Coleridge, Henry Nelson (STC’s Latin, 57, 58, 59, 81 nephew), 93, 121, 125 of ‘low and rustic life’, 18, 101 Coleridge, John (STC’s father), 1, 2, ordinary, authentic, 9, 82, 83, 84, 84 100 Coleridge, John (STC’s nephew), Shakespearean, 36, 94 114 lecturing, 5, 6, 7, 10, 47, 62, 65, 66, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 71, 74, 85, 90–3, 111 as Comberbache, Silas Tomkyn, 4 on Hamlet, 91, 92 as Hamlet, 93 on Milton, 90, 96 clerisy, definition of, 121 on Shakespeare, 90, 91 conversation and talk, ix, 55, 109, ‘Principles of Poetry, The’, 90 123–7 letters, 34, 45, 62, 63, 64, 69, 71, 80, in later life, 10, 49, 88, 93, 114, 109, 111, 122, 125 118, 129 about children, 78 criticism. See also lecturing from Germany, 67, 106 ‘Essay on Criticism’ planned, later, 88 45 official, 6 fancy and imagination, 75, 97, ‘Satyrane’s Letters’, 106 100–4, 107 to William Wordsworth, 99 Othello,94 love for Sara Hutchinson, 2, 16, 33, reviewing, 90, 106 34, 35, 47, 50, 51, 55, 58, 59, 63, Shakespeare, 90, 91, 94 65, 126 criticism of Wordsworth’s poetry marginalia, x, 88, 95, 125, 130 and theory, 98, 99, 100, 102, notebooks, ix, 12, 35, 37, 41–61, 62, 103–5, 111 64, 130 dreams, ix, x, 10, 15, 18, 50, 96, 125, Gutch Notebook, 61 126 opium education addiction, 13–15; beginning of Christ’sHospital,1,2,8 addiction, x, 26; effects of, 28, University of Cambridge, 3–4, 5, 50, 62, 111, 113; efforts to 19 control, 68, 70; experiments friendship with Robert Southey, 97, with, ix, 18, 50; not yet 99, 125, 129 habitual, 20; regulated dose, 67, friendship with William 70, 72, 113, 114; unstoppable Wordsworth, 9, 18, 20, 34, 36, habit, 13, 17, 58, 59, 63, 68, 69, 54, 63, 68, 98, 99 71, 113, 114; used as pain-killer, journalism 13, 62, 63; withdrawal in The Courier, 8, 57, 62, 66, 71, symptoms, 14, 51, 62, 113 106 plagiarism, accusations of, 90, 108, in The Morning Post, 8, 17, 48 109–10, 111 language, 28, 48, 73–89, 97, 115 plays and translations German, 47, 56, 58, 59, 81, 85, 87, Faustus, 118, 131 118 Osorio. See Remorse Greek, 19, 58, 59, 80, 85 Remorse, 36, 71 Italian, 47, 58 Wallenstein,36 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76282-3 — The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Worthen Index More Information 144 Index Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (cont.) ‘Soliloquy of the Full Moon, A’, poetry 32–3 ‘Alice du Clos’, 40 ‘Soother of Absence, The’ ‘All Look or Likeness’, 35 planned, 45 ‘Ballad of the Dark Ladie,` The’,18 ‘ThisLimeTreeBowermyPrison’, ‘Blossoming of the Solitary Date 22, 31 Tree, The’, 35, 40 ‘Three Graves, The’, 18, 21 ‘Character, A’, 39 ‘To Asra’, 35, 40 ‘Christabel’, ix, 17, 18, 19, 21, ‘To William Wordsworth’, 37, 99 26–7, 36, 39, 40, 130; ‘Wanderings of Cain, The’, 18, 21 publication, 102 ‘Work without Hope’, 39, 40 ‘Constancy to an Ideal Object’, 35 ‘Youth and Age’, 39–40 Conversation Poems, 31–2, 35, 82 political tendencies, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 19, ‘Dejection, An Ode’, 26, 33, 34, 64, 65, 116, 117 35, 37, 38, 44, 63, 130 prose ‘Destiny of Nations, The’, 38 Aids to Reflection, 74, 86, 114, ‘Devil’s Thoughts, The’, 32 119–21 ‘Eolian Harp, The’, 21, 32 Anima Poetae. See notebooks ‘Fears in Solitude’, 77 autobiography planned, 97 ‘Fire, Famine and Slaughter’, 18 Biographia Literaria, ix, 44, 45, 47, ‘Frost at Midnight’, 22, 82–3 55, 72, 82, 84, 97–112, 114, 118 ‘Kubla Khan’, ix, 15, 18, 19, 21, 26, ‘Biographical Sketches’. See 28–31, 56, 130; publication, Biographia Literaria 102 book on ‘The Power and Use of ‘Letter, A’. See ‘Dejection, An Words’ planned, 73 Ode’ Consolations and Comforts ‘Limbo’, 40 planned, 45 Lyrical Ballads. See Wordsworth, essay on Napoleon planned, 8 William, Lyrical Ballads essay on William Pitt, 8 ‘Milton’, 96 Extremes Meet planned, 45 ‘Moles’, 40 Friend, The, x, 44, 46, 47, 57, 62, ‘Nightingale, The’, 31 65–8, 69, 85, 98, 99, 102, 106, ‘Pains of Sleep, The’, 21, 37, 38 111, 118 ‘Pang More Sharp than All, The’, Lay Sermons, 47, 114, 116–17, 118 40 Literary Remains, 108 ‘Phantom’, 35 Logic, 112, 114, 127, 128 Poetical Works, ed. J. C. C. Mays, Logosophia planned, 112, 115 46 Men and Women, a Novel ‘Recollections of Love’, 35 planned, x ‘Religious Musings’, 8, 20, 21 ‘Moral and Political Lecture, A’, 5 ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Moral and Religious Musings & The’, ix, 18, 19, 21, 22–6, 37, 38, Mournings planned, 45 44, 56, 83, 88, 108, 114, 130 On the Constitution of the Church ‘S.T.C.’, 40 and State, 114, 121, 122 Sibylline Leaves, 105, 118 ‘On the Present War’, 5 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76282-3 — The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Worthen Index More Information Index 145 Opus Maximum, 112, 125, 127, Cotton, Charles, 108 128, 129, 131 Cowley, Abraham, 102 Philosophy of Epochs and Methods Cowper, William planned, 45 ‘Lines to Mrs Unwin’, 95 ‘Preface’ to poems planned, 98 Curtis, Sir William, 56 Shakespeare lectures published, 92 Daniel, Henry, 38 Statesman’s Manual, The. See Lay Daniel, Samuel, 102 Sermons daSilva, Raul, ix Table Talk, 93, 125 Davenant, Sir William, 108 Theory of Life, 114 Davy, Humphry, 9, 49, 86, 88 Watchman, The, 7–8, 66, 67, 77 De Quincey, Thomas, 13, 14, 108, quarrels with Robert Southey, 5, 109 69 Confessions of an English quarrels with William Wordsworth, Opium-Eater, 13, 113 51, 52, 54, 58, 68, 69, 84, 99, Derwent Water, 41 122, 123 Descartes, Rene,´ 47, 107 reading, 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 16, 20, 28, 62, Devonshire, 1 68, 70, 80, 85, 91, 94, 95, 96, Dickens, Charles, 61 108, 109, 129 Bleak House, 120 religion and belief Donne, John, 95, 102 Anglicanism, 1, 3, 4, 115–16 ‘Good-Morrow, The’, 95 Bible, 7, 61, 115, 116, 117, 118, ‘Obsequies to the Lord Harrington’, 119 85 Christianity, 4, 12, 47, 112, 115, Sermons,11 116, 118, 119, 127 ‘Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Methodism, 119 A’, 95 orthodoxy, 115, 116 Dore,´ Gustave, ix Quakerism, 116 Dorset, 117 redemption, 115, 116 Dryden, John, 95 Roman Catholicism, 116, 121 Dulverton, 54 transubstantiation, 116 Duns Scotus, 44 Trinity, the, 3, 110, 115 Unitarianism, 3, 4, 6, 12, 64, 115, Eikon Basilike,11 116, 119 Emancipation Act (1829), 121 slavery, concern with, 3, 7, 19 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 114, 120 suicidal thoughts, 14, 64, 71 Empson, William, 23 Coleridge, Sara (STC’s daughter), Essex, 55 122 Estlin, John, 8 Coleridge, Sarah (STC’s wife), 2, 6, 9, Evans, Mary, 2 16, 52, 57, 59, 64, 68, 70, 122, 126, 133 Fenner, Rest, 118 Collier, John Payne, 74, 92, 93 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 107 Columba, St, 117 Fielding, Henry Cottle, Joseph, 6, 15, 38, 71 Tom Jones,11 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76282-3 — The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Worthen Index More Information 146 Index France The Grove, 114 Britain at war with, 5, 7, 8, 9, 71 Hobbes, Thomas, 107 FrenchRevolution,3,5,9 Holmes, Richard, 130 William Wordsworth’s experience Horace, 56 of, 9 House of Commons, 48 Frend, William, 3, 4 Hume, David, 47 Frere, John Hookham Hutchinson, George, 59 translation of The Frogs,95 Hutchinson, Henry, 46 Fricker, Sarah. See Coleridge, Sarah Hutchinson, Mary. See Wordsworth, (STC’s wife) Mary Hutchinson, Sara, 2, 33, 57, 59, 65, 67, Gagging Acts. See Treason and Sedition 133 Bills and Acts (1795) links with STC Gallow Hill, 55 amanuensis for, 44, 59, 64, 67, 68, George III, 5 72 Germany, 9, 57, 67, 106 and ‘Asra’ poems, 35 Brunswick, 30 and Dejection, 33–5 Goslar, 56 Gottingen,¨ 100 Ireland, Mrs, 48, 83 Hamburg, 54 Iron Maiden, ix Harz mountains, 45, 54, 123 Italy, 59, 63, 64 Brocken spectre, 35 Naples, 69, 86 Gibraltar, 51 Pisa, 59 Gillman, James, 26, 114 Vesuvius, 69 Gillman, James and Ann, 113, 114, 122,
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