Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 2 / being The Biographical Supplement of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: his five autobiographical letters to Thomas Poole, i, 3–22;
    • born 21st October 1772, 3;
    • ancestry and parentage, 3–6;
    • writes autobiographical letters to Thomas Poole, 5;
    • baptised, 9;
    • child life of, 9–22;
    • at the reading school, 11;
    • early reading, 12;
    • admitted to the Grammar School, 13;
    • anecdotes of, 15;
    • his father resolves to make him a parson, 17;
    • recollections of the Vast, 17;
    • sent to Christ’s Hospital, 19;
    • sent to Hertford, 20;
    • entered at Jesus College, Cambridge, 29;
    • gains Sir William Browne’s gold medal for the Greek Ode, 30;
    • stands for the Craven Scholarship, 30;
    • writes a Greek Ode on Astronomy, 31;
    • account of, by a fellow student (C. V. Le Grice) at college, 31;
    • at Frend’s trial, 31;
    • at Ottery St. Mary in 1793, 32;
    • returns to Cambridge and enlists in the 15th Light
    • Dragoons, 32;
    • comes back to Cambridge, 33;
    • espouses Unitarianism, 33;
    • goes to Oxford and makes the acquaintance of Southey, 34;
    • leaves Oxford in company with John Hucks and makes a tour in Wales, 35;
    • tells an anecdote about his walking stick, 39;
    • goes to Bristol to meet Southey and is introduced to Sarah Fricker, 41;
    • along with Southey projects a scheme of Platonic Republicanism named Pantisocracy, 41–9;
    • delivers lectures in Bristol, 48;
    • marries Sarah Fricker on 4th October 1795, 49;
    • resides at Clevedon, 49–50;
    • projects a political journal called the Watchman, 50;
    • proposes to start a school, 51;
    • becomes acquainted with Joseph Cottle, publisher and poet, Bristol, 51;
    • and John James Morgan, 52;
    • and Dr. Beddoes and the Wedgwoods, 53;
    • preaches with remarkable effect, 54;
    • goes on a tour to the North to canvass for subscribers for the Watchman, 54–61;
    • meets Erasmus Darwin, 57;
    • meets James Montgomery, the poet, 59;
    • returns to Bristol and resides at Redcliffe Hill, 61;
    • gets ready for publication his first volume of poems, 61;
    • publishes the Watchman, 64;
    • removes to Kingsdown, Bristol, 64;
    • attacks William Godwin in the Watchman, 69;
    • projects various literary, etc., schemes, 74–5, 78–9;
    • Tom Poole collects an annuity for, 80;
    • proposes to settle at Nottingham, 83;
    • proposes to take to teaching, 85–6;
    • goes to Darley to see Mrs. Evans, 85–6;
    • returns to Bristol, 88;
    • goes to Birmingham to see the father of Charles Lloyd, 89;
    • his first child is born, 90;
    • quarrels with and is reconciled to Southey, 92;
    • writes his Ode to the Departing Year, and dedicates it to Thomas Poole, 112;
    • removes early in January 1797 to Stowey, Somersetshire, 121;
    • engages to publish a revised edition of his Poems, 122;
    • and sends poems to Cottle for his criticisms, 125;
    • invited by Sheridan to write a Tragedy, 127;
    • writes a curious letter to George Catcott of the Bristol Library, 128;
    • commences his tragedy Osorio, 129;
    • has a droll dialogue with a countrywoman, 132;
    • writes a humorous letter to Cottle about mice, 133;
    • meets Dorothy Wordsworth, and describes her to Cottle, 136;
    • meets John Thelwall, the democrat, 138–9;
    • goes to London with Osorio, 140;
    • meets W. Linley, Sheridan’s brother-in-law and secretary, 141;
    • his Osorio rejected by Sheridan, 142;
    • is offered but declines £100 from Thomas Wedgwood, 143;
    • has conferred on him a pension of £150 a year from Thomas and Josiah Wedgwood, 144;
    • his omnivorous reading, 146;
    • along with Wordsworth projects and publishes the volume of the Lyrical Ballads, 147;
    • anecdote of how the three bards were taught a lesson by a servant wench, 148;
    • projects a Third Edition of his Poems, 153–4;
    • has an estrangement with Charles Lamb
    • and Charles Lloyd, 161;
    • his second child born, 162;
    • visits Germany, 162;
    • ascends the Brocken, 167;
    • projects to write a life of Lessing, 180;
    • returns to England, 182;
    • works along with Southey and publishes The Devil’s Thoughts, 182;
    • visits Ottery and Stowey and Sockburn, and meets Sarah Hutchinson, 182;
    • contributes to the Morning Post, 185;
    • meets Godwin, 185;
    • translates Schiller’s Wallenstein, 185;
    • meets Horne Tooke, 188;
    • leaves London for Stowey, 193;
    • settles at Greta Hall, Keswick, 197;
    • adventure of, among the mountains, 210;
    • projects a work on the Rise and Condition of the German Boors, 216;
    • makes pedestrian tours with the Wordsworths, 219;
    • proposes to study chemistry, 222;
    • proposes to write an essay Concerning Poetry and the Nature of the Pleasure derived from it, 223;
    • meets John Stoddart and gives him a copy of Christabel, 228;
    • laments the loss of his Poetic Faculty, 229;
    • his ideal of The Permanent, 233–6;
    • in ill health, 243;
    • thinks of emigrating, 248;
    • visited by Samuel Rogers, 249;
    • goes again to London, 251;
    • his projected Epic, The Siege of Jerusalem, 254;
    • caught in a tempest among the hills, 258–9;
    • translates Gessner’s Erste Schiffer, 269;
    • publishes a Third Edition of his Poems, 270;
    • goes on a tour to Wales with Tom Wedgwood, 270;
    • goes on a tour to Scotland with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 270;
    • projects a work on Logic, 271;
    • writes again for the Morning Post, 275;
    • projects a Bibliotheca Britannica, 279;
    • lives with the Wordsworths (1803), 288;
    • back to London, 289;
    • invited by John Stoddart to Malta, 295;
    • sails for Malta, ii, [1];
    • reaches Valetta, 18th May 1804, [3];
    • becomes acquainted with Sir Alexander Ball, [3];
    • made interim-government secretary of Malta, [3];
    • visits Sicily and ascends Etna, [4];
    • goes to Rome and meets Baron Von Humboldt, Ludwig Ticck, Washington 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
    • 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].
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, on Acting and Playwriting, i, 208.
    • on The Aesthetic, ii, [69], [237].
    • on Atheism, i, 57.
    • on Bacon and Plato, i, 272.
    • on Baptism, i, 202, 207.
    • on the Bible, ii, [15].
    • on Books, i, 128.
    • on Sir Thomas Browne, i, 293–5.
    • on the Catholic Question, ii, [90–1].
    • on Chaucer, i, 276–7.
    • on Christianity, i, 93; ii, [10–13], [156], [175], [230–31].
    • on Democrats, i, 138.
    • on Epic Poem, Ideal of an, i, 130.
    • on Eternal Punishment, ii, [11].
    • on Chemistry, i, 245; ii, [44], [47].
    • on Children, i, 55, 58, 165–6, 176, 201, 203, 218; ii, [259], [273], [289], [302–4].
    • on the Cid, ii, [41].
    • on Genius, i, 64; ii, [258].
    • on German, i, 142, 180.
    • on William Hazlitt, i, 283.
    • on Himself, i, 5–22, 25, 74, 80–81, 88, 89, 90, 95, 96, 99–101, 106, 107–8, 110, 129, 152, 181, 186, 193, 198, 213–14, 220, 224, 228–9, 236, 244, 248, 252, 265, 275, 284, 289, 299; ii, [29], [31], [39], [49], [133], [135], [150–51], [159], [164], [167], [205], [207], [211–13], [253], [286].
    • on Homer’s Banging Lie, i, 269.
    • on Mrs. Inchbald, i, 195.
    • on Journals, ii, [42], [52], [54–5], [60], [64], [79], [92], [232–6].
    • on the Joys of Journalism, i, 190.
    • on Keswick and the Lake Country, i, 198, 214, 215, 237–8.
    • on Logic and Philosophy, i, 271–2, 274; ii, [161–2], [165], [206], [267].
    • on his Magnum Opus, ii, [209].
    • on Maternal Love, ii, [239].
    • on Metaphysics, i, 197, 202, 203–4, 210, 224.
    • on Mice, i, 133.
    • on Miracles, ii, [23–4].
    • on Money, i, 191, 225.
    • on Mountain-Climbing, i, 260–61.
    • on Nature-God, ii, [224].
    • on Natural Scenery, i, 51, 198, 200–1, 210–11, 221, 248, 262.
    • on Novel reading, ii, [184], [206].
    • on Omnipresent, The, i, 171, 174, 261.
    • On Playwriting, i, 208.
    • On Permanent, The, i, 233, 234; ii, [57–63].
    • on the Ideal of a Poem, ii, [25–6].
    • on Poetry, ii, [32], [153], [206].
    • on Poetic Diction, i, 113, 142, 223, 269.
    • on Population Question, i, 179, 187.
    • on Prayer, ii, [132].
    • on his Projects, i, 51, 52, 75, 78, 79, 86–7, 109, 127, 130, 180, 187, 196, 199, 216, 223, 254–5, 271–3, 279–81; ii, [32], [68], [69], [70], [142], [165], [188], [193], [203], [208];
      • his Magnum Opus, [209], [211], [230], [248], [267–8], [285], [287–9].
    • on the Quantocks, ii, [31].
    • on Reason and Imagination, i, 29–30; ii, [224].
    • on Review writing, ii, [72].
    • on Rich and Poor, ii, [225].
    • on the Sabbath, ii, [23].
    • on Skating, i, 163–4.
    • on Style, i, 187, 190, 205, 254; ii, [53], [59].
    • on the Sublime and Beautiful, ii, [223].
    • on Sympathy with the Ill in health, ii, [2].
    • on the Trinity, ii, [14–22].
    • on Unitarianism, ii, [13], [119].
    • on the Vast, i, 17.
    • on Woman, ii, [241–43].
    • on Wordsworth, Dorothy, i, 136.
    • on Wordsworth, William, i, 129, 135, 152, 157, 158, 199; ii, [164], [194–5].
    • on his Wallenstein, i, 199, 213, 218.
  • Coleridge, Mrs. S.T. (née Sarah Fricker, called “Sara”), meets Coleridge, i, 41, 43;
    • married to Coleridge, 4th October 1795, 49, 60, 65, 73, 81, 83, 85, 86, 88;
    • at Stowey, 123, 140, 153, 155, 162, 185, 195, 201, 203, 207, 218, 255, 263, 273, 288;
    • ii, estrangement with Coleridge, [100–103];
    • Coleridge’s solicitude about, [127];
    • comes to London and visits her husband and the Gillmans, [267], [268].
  • Coleridge, Sara (daughter), afterwards Mrs. Henry Nelson Coleridge, born, i, 270;
    • on Daniel Stuart and her Father, chapter xvii, ii, [76], [267], [268];
    • see also Preface, v;
    • her Memoirs, Preface, x.
  • Complaint and Reply, ii, [112].
  • Concert Room, Lines composed in a, ii, [111].
  • Conciones ad Populum, i, 48; ii, [113].
  • Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit, ii, [279], [307–10].
  • Connubial Rupture in High Life, On a late, ii, [202].
  • Conspiracy of Gowrie, by William Rough, i, 243.