We catch an interesting glimpse of this poet-publisher in a letter of Coleridge's to Robert Southey, written under date of July 22, 1801:
"Poor Joseph! he has scribbled away both head and heart. What an affecting essay I could write on that man's character! Had he gone in his quiet way on a little pony, looking about him with a sheep's-eye cast now and then at a short poem, I do verily think from many parts of the "Malvern Hill," that he would at last have become a poet better than many who have had much fame, but he would be an Epic, and so
'Victorious o'er the Danes, I Alfred, preach,
Of my own forces, Chaplain-General.'"
Duodecimo.
Collation: viii, 68 pp., 1 l., 69-210 pp., 1 l.
WASHINGTON IRVING
(1783-1859)
67. A History | Of | New York, | From The Beginning Of The World To The | End Of The Dutch Dynasty. | [Eight lines] By Diedrich Knickerbocker. | [Quotation] In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. | Published By Inskeep & Bradford, New York; | Bradford & Inskeep, Philadelphia; Wm. M'Il- | Henny, Boston; Coale & Thomas, Baltimore; | And Morford, Willington, & Co. Charleston. | 1809.