The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
THE NOTEBOOKS OF Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
Edited by Kathleen Coburn and Merton
Christensen
VOLUME 4 1819–1826
NOTES
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ABBREVIATIONS AND CONTRACTIONS
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GENERAL NOTES ON EACH NOTEBOOK
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Notebook 26
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Notebook 28
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Notebook 30
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Notebook 60
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Folio Notebook
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NOTES ON THE NOTEBOOKS: 1819–1826 Entries 4505–5471
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APPENDIX A: A List of Coleridge’s Symbols
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THE NOTEBOOK TABLES
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INDEXES 627
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Names of Persons
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Selected Titles
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CONTRACTIONS
Aesthetic Education J.C.F.Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man ed & tr Elizabeth Wilkinson and L.A.Willoughby (Oxford 1967).
Allsop Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S.T.Coleridge
ed Thomas Allsop (2 vols London 1836).
Allston Life The Life and Letters of Washington Allston J.B.Flagg
(New York 1892).
ALZ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung (Jena; Leipzig 1785–1849).
An Anthol The Annual Anthology (2 vols Bristol 1799–1800).
An Reg Annual Register (London 1758–).
An Rev Annual Review and History of Literature (London 1803–
18).
AP Anima Poetae from the unpublished notebooks of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge ed E.H.Coleridge (London 1895).
AP (Keats H) A copy of Anima Poetae in Keats House, Hampstead,
annotated by several hands.
Appleyard J.A.Appleyard Coleridge’s Philosophy of Literature
(Cambridge, Mass. 1965).
APR A.P.Rossiter.
AR Aids to Reflection in the formation of a manly character on
the several grounds of prudence, morality and religion, illustrated by select passages from our elder divines,
especially from Archbishop Leighton S.T.Coleridge (London 1825).
Archiv Archiv für den thierischen Magnetismus ed.
C.A.Eschenmayer, D.D.Kieser and F.Nasse (12 vols Altenburg and Leipzig 1817–24).
Asra “Coleridge and ‘Asra’ “T.M.Raysor Studies in Philology
xxvi (1929) 305–24.
Bald R.C.Bald “Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner” Nineteenth
Century Studies ed Herbert Davis, W.C.De Vane, and R. C.Bald (Ithaca, N.Y. 1940).
BCP Book of Common Prayer.
B Critic The British Critic (London May 1793–1843).
BE Biographia Epistolaris S.T.Coleridge ed A.Turnbull (2
BL (1817) Biographia Literaria S.T.Coleridge (2 vols London 1817).
BL (1847) Biographia Literaria S.T.Coleridge ed H.N. and Sara
Coleridge (2 vols London 1847).
BL (CC) Biographia Literaria S.T.Coleridge ed James Engell and
W.Jackson Bate (2 vols Bollingen Series LXXV London and Princeton 1982).
Blackwell SC Blackwell Sale Catalogue.
Blackwood’s Blackwood’s Magazine (Edinburgh and London Ap 1817–
).
Blumenbach Handbuch J.F.Blumenbach Handbuch der Naturgeschichte
(Göttingen 1779).
BM British Museum.
Boehme Works Jakob Boehme The Works of Jacob Behmen…To which is
prefixed, The Life of the Author. With figures, illustrating his Principles, left by the Reverend William Law (1764–
81).
Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden Erasmus Darwin (2 vols London
1794–5).
B Poets The Works of the British Poets ed Robert Anderson (13
vols Edinburgh 1792–5; vol 14 issued 1807).
Brande Manual W.T.Brande Manual of Chemistry (1819).
Brandl A.L.Brandl “S.T.Coleridge’s Notizbuch aus den Jahren
1795–1798” in Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen XCVII (1896) 333–72.
Bristol Borrowings “The Bristol Library Borrowings of Southey and
Coleridge, 1793–8” George Whalley The Library IV (Sept 1949) 114–31.
C&S On the Constitution of Church and State, according to the
Idea of Each with aids toward a right judgment on the late bill S.T. Coleridge (London 1830).
C&S (CC) On the Constitution of the Church and State S.T.Coleridge
ed John Colmer (Bollingen Series LXXV London and Princeton 1976).
C&SH Coleridge and Sara Hutchinson and the Asra Poems
George Whalley (London 1955).
C&S in Bristol “Coleridge and Southey in Bristol, 1795” George Whalley Review of English Studies NS I (Oct 1950) 333.
Carlyon Clement Carlyon Early Years and Late Reflections (4 vols
London 1836–58).
C at Highgate Coleridge at Highgate L.E. (G.) Watson (London and New
CC The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Bollingen Series LXXV London & Princeton 1969–).
C Concordance A Concordance to the Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ed Sister Eugenia Logan (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. 1940).
Chambers E.K.Chambers Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Oxford 1938).
CIS Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit S.T.Coleridge ed H.N.
Coleridge (1840).
CIS (1849) Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit S.T.Coleridge with
introduction by J.H.Green ed Sara Coleridge (1849).
CL Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ed.
E.L.Griggs (Oxford and New York 1956–).
C Life Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a Narrative of the Events of his
Life J.D.Campbell (London 1894).
CM Marginalia S.T.Coleridge ed George Whalley (5 vols
Bollingen Series LXXV London and Princeton 1980–).
CN The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ed Kathleen
Coburn (New York and London 1957–).
Coburn Experience into Thought Kathleen Coburn Experience into Thought: Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks (Toronto 1979).
Coburn “Restraint” Kathleen Coburn “Coleridge and Restraint” (University of
Toronto Quarterly 1969).
Coburn SC Imagination Kathleen Coburn The Self-Conscious Imagination (Oxford
1974).
Coleorton Memorials of Coleorton ed William Knight (2 vols
Edinburgh 1887).
Cornell Studies Some Letters of the Wordsworth Family…with a few
unpublished letters of Coleridge and Southey and others ed Leslie Na-than Broughton. Cornell Studies in English
XXXII (Ithaca, N.Y. 1942).
COS Coleridge on Shakespeare. The text of the lectures of
1811–12 ed. R.A.Foakes (London 1971).
Cottle (E Rec) Joseph Cottle Early Recollections; chiefly relating to the
late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, during his long residence in Bristol (2 vols London 1837–39).
Cottle (Rem) Joseph Cottle Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Robert Southey (London 1847).
CRBooks H.C.Robinson on Books and their Writers ed. E.J.Morley
(3 vols London 1938).
CRC The Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson with the
Creuzer Symbolik G.F.Creuzer Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker (4 vols Leipzig 1810–12).
Creuzer Symbolik G.F.Creuzer Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker (6
vols Leipzig and Darmstadt 1819–23).
Cr Reυ The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature (London
1756–1817).
C 17th C Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century ed R.F.Brinkley
(Durham, N.C. 1955).
C Talker Coleridge the Talker: A Series of Contemporary
Descriptions and Comments ed Richard W.Armour and Raymond F.Howes (Ithaca, N.Y. 1940).
C Works The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ed
[W.G.T] Shedd (7 vols New York 1853).
DCL Dove Cottage Library.
De Q Works The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey ed David
Masson (14 vols Edinburgh 1889–90).
Diels Hermann Diels Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.
D Life The Life of Sir Humphry Davy J.A.Paris (2 vols London
1831).
D Life 4° The Life of Sir Humphry Davy J.A.Paris (I vol 4° London
1831).
D Memoirs Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy John Davy
(London 1839).
DNB Dictionary of National Biography (London 1885–).
D Rem Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific of Sir
Humphry Davy, with a Sketch of his Life ed John Davy (London 1858).
DW Dorothy Wordsworth.
DW (de S) Dorothy Wordsworth Ernest de Selincourt (Oxford 1933).
DWJ Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth ed Ernest de Selincourt
(2 vols Oxford 1939).
D Works The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ed John Davy
(9 vols London 1839–41).
E&S Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association
(London 1910–).
EB Encyclopaedia Britannica.
EC Edward Coleridge.
EDD English Dialect Dictionary ed Joseph Wright (6 vols
EHC Ernest Hartley Coleridge.
Eichhorn ABbLitt J.G.Eichhorn ed Allgemeine Bibliothek der biblischen
Litteratur (10 vols Leipzig 1789–1800).
Eichhorn Apocal J.G.Eichhorn Commentarius in Apocalypsin Joannis (2
vols Göttingen 1791)
Eichhorn Apok J.G.Eichhorn Einleitung in die apokryphischen Schriften
des Alten Testaments (Leipzig 1795).
Eichhorn AT J.G.Eichhorn Einleitung ins Alte Testament (3 vols Leipzig
1787).
Eichhorn NT (A) J.G.Eichhorn Einleitung in das Neue Testament (3 vols
Leipzig 1803, 1810–11, 1812–14) Coleridge’s Copy A.
Eichhorn NT (B) J.G.Eichhorn Einleitung in das Neue Testament (3 vols
Leipzig 1803, 1810–11, 1812–14) Coleridge’s Copy B.
Eng Div Notes on English Divines S.T.Coleridge ed Derwent
Coleridge (2 vols London 1853).
Eng Poets The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper
ed Alexander Chalmers (21 vols London 1810).
EOT Essays on his Own Times forming a second series of The
Friend S.T.Coleridge ed Sara Coleridge (3 vols London 1850).
EOT (CC) Essays on His Times S.T.Coleridge ed David V.Erdman (3
vols Bollingen Series LXXV London and Princeton 1976).
Estimate of WW Estimate of William Wordsworth by his Contemporaries ed
Elsie Smith (Oxford 1932).
Estlin “Unpublished Letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the
Rev. John Prior Estlin” Philobiblon Society Miscellanies XV (London 1884).
Friend (1809–10) The Friend, a Literary, Moral and Political Weekly Paper
conducted by S.T.Coleridge (Penrith 1809–10 in numbers).
Friend (1812) The Friend, a series of essays S.T.Coleridge (London,
1812).
Friend (1818) The Friend, a series of essays S.T.Coleridge (3 vols 1818).
The Friend (CC) The Friend S.T.Coleridge ed B.E.Rooke (2 vols Bollingen
Series LXXV London and Princeton 1969).
Friend (R) The Friend, a critical edition of the three versions (MS) ed
B.E.Rooke.
Gent Mag Gentleman’s Magazine.
Gillman James Gillman Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Vol I [all
published] London 1838).
Godwin (Brown) Life of William Godwin F.K.Brown (London 1926).
Godwin (MS Diary) Transcript by Dr. Lewis Patton from a microfilm in Duke
University Library of the MS diary of William Godwin owned by Lord Abinger.
Godwin (Paul) William Godwin, his Friends and Contemporaries
C.K.Paul (London 1876).
Godwin SC (1836) Catalogue of the Curious Library of…William Godwin
(Sotheby, London 1836).
Göttingen Borrowings “Books borrowed by Coleridge from the library of the
University of Göttingen, 1799” A.D.Snyder Modern Philology XXV (1928) 377–80.
Green SC Catalogue of the Library of Joseph Henry Green which
will be sold by auction Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge (London July 1880).
Grimm J.L.C.Grimm and W.C.Grimm Deutsches Wörterbuch (16
vols Leipzig 1854–1954).
Haney J.L.Haney A Bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Philadelphia 1903).
Hansard T.C.Hansard publ Parliamentary Debates from the Year
1803 to the Present Time (14 vols 1812–20).
Hanson Lawrence Hanson The Life of S.T.Coleridge, the Early
Years (London 1938).
HC Letters Hartley Coleridge Letters of Hartley Coleridge ed G.E.
Griggs and E.L.Griggs (London 1936).
HC Poems Hartley Coleridge Poems with a Memoir by his Brother ed
Derwent Coleridge (1851).
HCR Henry Crabb Robinson.
Heber Reginald Heber (editor) The Whole Works of Jeremy
Taylor with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of his Writings (10 vols London 1883).
HEHL Henry E.Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino,
Calif.
HEHLB Henry E.Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino,
Calif. Huntington Library Bulletin (II nos Cambridge, Mass. 1931–37).
HEHLQ The Huntington Library Quarterly (San Marino, Calif.
1937–).
HLB Harυard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, Mass. 1947).
H Life (Howe) The Life of William Hazlitt P.P.Howe (revised edition
London and New York 1928).
House of Letters A House of Letters, being excerpts from the correspondence of …Coleridge, Lamb, Southey…with Matilda Betham ed Ernest Betham (Second edition London
[1905]).
HUL Harvard University Library (and the Houghton Library).
Hutchinson William Hutchinson The History of the County of
Cumberland (2 vols Carlisle 1794).
H Works The Complete Works of William Hazlitt ed P.P.Howe (21
vols London 1930–4).
Inq Sp Inquiring Spirit; a new presentation of Coleridge from his
published and unpublished prose writings ed Kathleen Coburn (London and New York 1951).
IS (1979) Inquiring Spirit; a new presentation of Coleridge from his
published and unpublished prose writings ed Kathleen Coburn (2nd rev ed Toronto 1979).
JDC James Dykes Campbell.
JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Bloomington,
111. 1897–).
JTC John Taylor Coleridge.
JW John Wordsworth.
K&S William Kirby and William Spence An Introduction to
Entomology (4 vols 1815, 1817, 1826).
Kant KpV Immanuel Kant Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (Riga
1797).
Kant KrV Immanuel Kant Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Leipzig 1799).
Kant VS Immanuel Kant Vermischte Schriften (4 vols Halle 1799).
K Letters (Rollins) The Letters of John Keats 1814–1821 ed H.E.Rollins (2
vols Cambridge, Mass. 1958).
L Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ed E.H.Coleridge (2
vols London 1895).
L & L Coleridge on Logic and Learning ed A.D.Snyder (London
1929).
LB Lyrical Ballads with a few other Poems [By William
Wordsworth and S.T.Coleridge] (Bristol and London 1798).
LB (1800) Lyrical Ballads with other Poems William Wordsworth
[and S.T.Coleridge] (Second edition 2 vols London 1800).
LCL Loeb Classical Library.
Lects 1795 (CC) Lectures 1795: On Politics and Religion S.T.Coleridge ed
L Letters The Letters of Charles Lamb to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb ed E.V.Lucas (3 vols London 1935).
L Letters (1976) The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb ed E.W.Marrs Jr (3
vols Ithaca and London 1976).
L Life Life of Charles Lamb E.V.Lucas (London 1921).
LLP Letters from the Lake Poets to Daniel Stuart [ed Mary
Stuart and E.H.Coleridge] (London 1889).
LMLA The London Monthly Literary Advertiser (1805–28).
Logic Coleridge on Logic and Learning ed A.D.Snyder (London
1929).
Logic (CC) Logic S.T.Coleridge ed J.R. de J.Jackson (Bollingen Series
LXXV London and Princeton 1981).
Logic (MS) BM Egerton MSS 2825, 2826.
LR The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ed H.N.
Coleridge (London 1836–9).
LS A Lay Sermon addressed to the higher and middle classes
on the existing distresses and discontents S.T.Coleridge (London 1817).
LS (CC) A Lay Sermon S.T.Coleridge ed R.J.White. In Lay Sermons
(Bollingen Series LXXV London and Princeton 1972).
L Works The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb ed E.V.Lucas (6
vols London 1912).
Margoliouth H.M.Margoliouth Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1795–1834
(London and New York 1953).
MC Coleridge’s Miscellaneous Criticism ed T.M.Raysor
(London 1936).
McFarland CPT Thomas McFarland Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition
(Oxford 1969).
M Chronicle The Morning Chronicle (London 1770–1862).
Meteyard Eliza Meteyard A Group of Englishmen (London 1871).
Method S.T. Coleridge’s Treatise on Method as published in the
Encylopaedia Metropolitana ed A.D.Snyder (London 1934).
Migne PG Patrologiae cursus completus…Series Graeca (162 vols
Paris 1857–1912).
Migne PL Patrologiae cursus completus…Series Latina ed J.P.Migne
(221 vols Paris 1844–64).
Minnow Among Tritons Minnow Among Tritons; Mrs. S.T.Coleridge’s letters to
Miscellanies Miscellanies, Aesthetic and Literary; to which is added “The Theory of Life” S.T.Coleridge ed T.Ashe (London
1885).
MLN Modern Language Notes (Baltimore 1886–).
MLR Modern Language Review (Cambridge 1905–).
M Memoirs Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh ed
R.J.Mackintosh (Second edition 2 vols London 1836).
Mod Philol Modern Philology (Chicago 1903–).
Mon Mag The Monthly Magazine and British Register (London Feb
1796–1843).
Mon Reυ The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal (London 1749–
1844).
M Post The Morning Post (London 1772–).
MS Journal A journal of Coleridge’s visit to Germany, a foolscap MS
in his holograph (intermediate between the entries in the notebooks and “Satyrane’s letters”, much of it used in letters to his wife, Poole, and Josiah Wedgwood. Once owned by Gabriel Wells of New York), now in the Berg
Collection, NYPL.
MW Mary (Mrs.) Wordsworth.
N Notebook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
N&Q Notes and Queries (London 1849–).
NBU Nouυelle Biographie universelle (46 vols Paris 1852–66).
NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge 1964).
Nicholson’s Journal A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
ed William Nicholson (London 1797–1813).
Notes Theol Notes, Theological, Political and Miscellaneous
S.T.Coleridge ed Derwent Coleridge (London 1853).
NT New Testament.
NYPL New York Public Library.
OCD The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford 1949).
ODCC The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ed
F.L.Cross (London 1957).
ODEE The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ed
C.T.Onions with G.W.S.Friedrichsen and R.W.Burchfield (Oxford 1966).
ODNR The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes ed I. and P.Opie
(Oxford 1951).
OED Oxford English Dictionary (13 vols Oxford 1933).
1816–26).
Omniana Omniana [ed Robert Southey with articles by
S.T.Coleridge] (2 vols London 1812).
Omniana (Ashe) The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ed T.Ashe (London 1884).
Op Max (CC) Opus Maximum S.T.Coleridge ed Thomas McFarland
(Bollingen Series LXXV London and Princeton), in preparation.
Op Max (MS) Opus Maximum S.T.Coleridge. MSS in HEHL and VCL.
OT Old Testament.
Phil Lects The Philosophical Lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ed
Kathleen Coburn (London and New York 1949).
Phil Mag The Philosophical Magazine (London 1798–).
Phil Trans Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London
1665–1886).
Phil Trans (Abr) The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Abridgement ed C.Hutton, R.Pearson, and G.Shaw (London 1792–1809).
Philol Q Philological Quarterly (Iowa City 1922–).
P Lects (CC) Lectures 1818–1819; On the History of Philosophy ed
Owen Barfield and Kathleen Coburn (Bollingen Series xxv London and Princeton), in preparation.
PML Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City.
PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association
(Baltimore 1886–).
Poems 1796 Poems on Various Subjects S.T.Coleridge (Bristol 1796).
Poems 1797 Poems by S.T.Coleridge, second edition, to which are now
added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd (Bristol and London 1797).
Poole Thomas Poole and his Friends M.E. (P). Sandford (2 vols
London 1888).
Prelude The Prelude or Growth of a Poet’s Mind William
Wordsworth ed Ernest de Selincourt (Oxford 1926).
PW The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ed E.H.Coleridge (2 vols Oxford 1912).
PW (JDC) The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ed with a
biographical introduction by J.D.Campbell (London and New York 1893).
QJSLA The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts
“Reflexions” “Some Reflexions in a Coleridge Mirror” Kathleen Coburn From Sensibility to Romanticism ed F.W.Hilles and Harold
Bloom (New York 1965).
RES Review of English Studies (London 1925–).
Rickman Lamb’s Friend the Census-Taker. Life and Letters of John
Rickman Orlo Williams (London 1912).
RS Robert Southey.
RSL The Royal Society of Literature.
RS SC Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the Late Robert
Southey, Esq. LL.D.Poet Laureate (London 1844).
RX The Road to Xanadu J.L.Lowes (revised edition London
1930).
SC Sara Coleridge (Mrs. H.N.Coleridge).
SCB Southey’s Common-Place Book ed. J.W.Warter (4 vols
London 1849–51).
Schelling Einleitung F.W.J.Schelling Einleitung zu einem Entwurf eines
Systems der Naturphilosophie (Jena and Leipzig 1799).
Schelling Naturphilosophie F.W.J.Schelling Erster Entwurf eines Systems der
Naturphi-losophie (Jena and Leipzig 1799).
Schelling Tr Id F.W.J.Schelling System des transcendentalen Idealismus
(Leipzig 1800).
Schneider Elisabeth Schneider Coleridge, Opium and Kubla Khan
(Chicago 1953).
SC Memoir Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge [ed Edith
Coleridge] (Second edition 2 vols London 1873).
Select P&P Select Poetry and Prose S.T.Coleridge ed Stephen Potter
(London 1933).
SH Sarah Hutchinson.
ShC Coleridge’s Shakespearean Criticism ed T.M.Raysor (2
vols London 1930).
SH Letters The Letters of Sara Hutchinson ed Kathleen Coburn
(London and Toronto 1954).
SL Sibylline Leaves S.T.Coleridge (London 1817).
S Letters (Curry) New Letters of Robert Southey ed Kenneth Curry (2 vols
New York and London 1965).
S Letters (Warter) Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey ed J.W.
Warter (4 vols London 1856).
S Life and C Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey ed
C.C.Southey (6 vols London 1849–50).
SM:LS (CC) The Statesmans Manual S.T.Coleridge ed R.J.White. In Lay Sermons (Bollingen Series LXXV London and
Princeton 1972).
Steffens Beyträge Heinrich Steffens Beyträge zur innern Naturgeschichte der Erde (Freiberg 1801).
Steffens Caricaturen Heinrich Steffens Caricaturen des Heiligsten (2 vols
Leipzig 1819, 1821).
Steffens G-g Aufsätze Heinrich Steffens Geognostisch-geologische Aufsätze als Vorbereitung zu einer innem Naturgeschichte der Erde
(Hamburg 1810).
Steffens Grundzüge Heinrich Steffens Grundzüge der philosophischen
Naturwissen-schaft (Berlin 1806).
Studies (Blunden & Griggs) Coleridge: Studies by Several Hands on the Hundredth Anniversary of his Death ed Edmund Blunden and
E.L.Griggs (London 1934).
Stud Philol Studies in Philology (Chapel Hill, N.C. 1906–).
SWF Shorter Works and Fragments S.T.Coleridge ed H.J. and
J.R. de J.Jackson (Bollingen Series LXXV London and Princeton) in preparation.
Tennemann W.G.Tennemann Geschichte der Philosophie (12 vols
Leipzig 1798–1819).
Theol Lects Theological Lectures, S.T.Coleridge (Bristol 1795 MS
transcript by E.H.Coleridge, in VCL).
TL Hints towards the Formation of a more Comprehensive
Theory of Life S.T.Coleridge ed S.B.Watson (London 1848).
TLS The Times Literary Supplement (London 1902–).
Toland John Toland (editor) A Complete Collection of the
Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of Milton (3 vols London 1694–8).
TT Specimens of the Table Talk of the late Samuel Taylor
Coleridge ed H.N.Coleridge (2 vols London 1835).
TT (Ashe) The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge ed T.Ashe (London 1884).
TT (CC) Table Talk S.T.Coleridge ed Carl R.Woodring (Bollingen
Series LXXV London and Princeton), in preparation.
TT (MS) Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge (additions, in the MS of
H.N.Coleridge in VCL).
UL Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ed E.L.
Griggs (2 vols London 1932).
Watchman The Watchman S.T.Coleridge (Bristol 1796).
Watchman (CC) The Watchman S.T.Coleridge ed Lewis Patton (Bollingen
Series LXXV London and Princeton 1970).
W Circle The Wordsworth Circle (Washington D.C. 1970–).
Wedguoood Tom Wedgwood, the First Photographer R.B.Litchfield
(London 1903).
W Letters (E) The Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth ed
Ernest de Selincourt (Oxford 1935).
W Letters (L) Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth; the Later
Years ed Ernest de Selincourt (3 vols Oxford 1939).
W Letters (M) Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth; the Middle
Years ed Ernest de Selincourt (2 vols Oxford 1937).
W Life William Wordsworth: a Biography Mary Moorman (2 vols
Oxford 1957–65).
Wordsworth & Coleridge Wordsworth & Coleridge: Studies in honor of George McLean Harper ed E.L.Griggs (Princeton 1939).
Wordsworth LC Wordsworth Library Catalogue (HUL MS).
Wordsworth SC Catalogue of the…library of…William Wordsworth
(Preston 1859).
W Poems (1815) Poems by William Wordsworth; including Lyrical
Ballads… with additional poems, a new preface, and a supplementary essay (2 vols London 1815).
WPW The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ed Ernest de
Selincourt and Helen Darbishire (5 vols Oxford 1940–9).
WPW (Knight) The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ed
W.A.Knight (8 vols London 1896).
BM Add MS 47,524
BM Add MS 47,524 COVER
Brown leather, with clasp now broken. On the front cover is written in black ink “A 1826–1827”. There is inside the front cover the usual “S.T.C.” label. In the lower left corner is written in pencil “2/6”. Entries 5340, 5344, 5448, and 5452 are at various angles on the inside front cover foliated as [1v] in ink. On the outside back cover, is written in
ink “1826–1827” with “26” below the date. WATERMARK
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× 158 leaves foliated by the BM [f1v] to f159, 316 pages. One leaf was
excised between f26v and f27 before foliation, and one or more leaves appear to have
been torn out at the front, also before foliation. Entries are in ink except where indicated in the notes. Ff13v to 2, the notebook being reversed, are lettered A to W, Y.Coleridge’s
numbering begins on f11 and continues to f128v with the odd numbers appearing in the
upper right-hand corners of the recto pages and the verso pages remaining unmarked, except for ff19v, 20v, 42v, 62v, 68v, 72v, 76v, 86v, 101v, 112v, 117v, 123v, and 128v. The
numbering system runs from 1 to 230. FIII (p 199) was not numbered. Coleridge began a second numbering from the back, from f157v to f156v, 1 to 3, again only odd numbers
being used. A third numbering system going in the same direction begins on f152 and continues to f127v, the pages being numbered 1 to 50. F 22, 22v was tipped in, a calling
card of “The Revd Richard Cattermole” on which entry 5390 was written.
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The notebook was formerly a “Gillman Receipt Book” and prescriptions in a variety of unidentified hands appear on ff4−10v and ff 153–156. Coleridge eventually, mainly in
1826, uszd ff1–3v and 157–9, and wrote over the faint pencil jottings on ff4–10v. He
apparently began to use the notebook on the pages following the first series of prescriptions, as he began his numbering on f11 and his earliest entries, datable September 1823, are on ff11–17v. The notebook was in use at intervals from then until
October 1830, when the last entry was squeezed in on f152, the notebook being filled. The chief periods of use, however, seem to be May–June 1826 and May– July 1827.
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Red leather, with clasp now broken. There is a leather fold for a pencil holder attached to the top of the back cover. Written in black ink on the cover in a large hand (?Mrs Gillman’s) is “1819 & part/1824”. There is also a white homemade label on which is written 28/ii”. See 4645, 4646 and nn.
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90 leaves, 182 pages used, including inside front and back covers, foliated [f1v] to f92. One leaf has been excised between f45v and f46, not included in the
foliation, and ten pages were left blank (except for Coleridge’s numbering) between f75 and f76. Coleridge numbered the pages, including the ones left blank (ff75v–76–148–
157), from f2v to f76v, 2–160, the numbers appearing in the upper right- and left-hand
corners of each page except the versos from f17v [31] to f76v [60].
The inside front cover f1v contains entry 4583; f2 is a title-page, with an “S.T.C.” label
on it, entry 4582 in the upper right, and “16 July 1819/Highgate” written in ink below, followed by a paragraph of description; see 4584 and n:
Continued from the red pocket book, marked on the outside Cover.
That book like most of its Predecessors begins at the beginning, middle, and end—and to prevent the jumble of Heterogene Subjects resulting from this κ’αταξια, I have paged the last 28 sides the side next the Cover being p. 28: and devote these exclusively to Miscellanea.
A second title-page appears on f78; see 4585 and n. “Miscellanea/vel cogitationum vel otiorum vel/negotiorum”; here a second numbering begins as I, and runs to f91v, as 28.
Numbers are in upper right- and lefthand corners; f79 has been numbered “5”, the leaf of pages 3 and 4 having been torn out, with a stub remaining; having numbered two pages “7”, Coleridge inserted “07”s on what ought to have been pages 8 and 9 (ff80v and 81).
Entries are in ink unless otherwise indicated. On f21 there are pencilled scribbles (by a child?) resembling a double B.
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Brown leather and board; faint traces of the original red remain. On the front cover is written in black ink in a large hand (?Mrs Gillman’s) “1823. 1824/Rams-gate/ on the back “Ramsgate”. On the front is a white home-made label on which is written 30”. The inside of the front cover (f1v) has entry 5098, the inside back cover (f69), entries
4826 and 5005, front and back being determined by Coleridge’s main page-numbering. WATERMARK
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×4′′, 67 leaves, 136 pages, including the inside of the front and back covers and the inserted scraps, foliated// to f69. Rectos were numbered by Coleridge (f2, ff5–67, f69), with the odd numbers from 1 to 129, and, with the notebook turned (ff69, 67v–48v), with
1, 2 and the even numbers to 40. Numbers are centered at the top of the pages. Two leaves were excised between f51vand f52 leaving stubs not included in Coleridge’s
numbering or the foliation. (For the missing leaves, now in PML, see below 5102 and n.) Entries are in ink except where otherwise indicated in the notes.
In the BM rebinding three loose scraps of paper have been attached to three leaves inserted for the purpose. These scraps are foliated 3, 4, and 68. Their stubs appear between ff10v and 11, and ff59v and 60. F3 reads, in Mrs Gillman’s hand: “if this
does not belong to this Book—it belongs to an old red book 1804.” This possibly refers to ff4–4v which is written on in ink:
line of p. H. insert:
reasons, and those not historical or chronological, can be assigned) on the grounds of this rejection;—but if acknowledged as genuine, then in the fact and justification of its non-admission into the Sacred Canon.) The Faith of the first Believers, antecedent to the existence of the sacred Writings may be supposed to fall from defects in the superstructure.
Coleridge’s footnote sign indicating insertion on a mysterious “p[age] H” may be another pointer to a lost notebook; see N 28 Gen N. f68 gives a recipe, not in coleridge’s hand. PERIOD OF USE
VCL Coleridge Collection MS 23
VCL Coleridge Collection MS 23 COVER
No real cover, but the usual white label marked in ink N 60 on the first page. In an unknown hand, in pencil, the word “Copied” is written vertically towards the lefthand margin. The first entry begins on the first page or front cover; the last entry is on the last page (f28v) or back cover. See entries 4728 and 4944 and nn. Both are darkened with use.
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Approximately the same size as N 61 (see CN in Gen N) i.e.× 28 leaves, of which ff19vi, 25v– 28 are blank. This is a small home-made booklet that, like N 61, was
stitched together with crotchet cotton on the longer side of sheets cut to size. Altogether it is in battered condition with some corners broken (f1, f10). An attempt appears to have been made to repair it, ff1, 2, 3 and 4 having been glued in together; they have broken away from the rest of the notebook. Entries are in ink.
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Brown marbled cardboard, in good condition. There are no labels or stickers. Entries F°.1 5308, F°.2 5361, F°.3, F°.4, F°.5 (the last three to come in CN V) are on inside front cover [f1v].
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× 186 leaves, not foliated by the Huntington Library. Foliation here is therefore adventitiously imposed according to the system used for the other notebooks and is marked with square brackets, including inside front and back covers which contain entries, and two leaves [ff185–186v] that were excised. There is a sheet pasted
in between [f49v and f50] containing a copy of part of entry 5426, smudged by the
cancellations in 5424, done in Mrs Gillman’s hand. Pages were numbered by Coleridge 1 to 201 from [f3] to [f103], with numbers being omitted, irregularly on many versos to f80v, and on all versos from there to ƒ103v. The bottom two inches of [ff54–54v] are torn
off and [f66v] is numbered twice as 128 and 131. Numbers are usually in the upper centre
of the page; 131 [f68] is in the upper right-hand corner. The [f67v] 130 is left blank, as
are [ff92–100v] and [ff101v–181]. Entries begin again on [f181v] and continue to [f187].
It is not known whether [ff185–186v] were excised before or after entries on them were
entered in the notebook. Entries are in ink unless otherwise indicated. On [f101] 197 is a title, “Fly-Catcher No XX”.
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4505 27.25 The entry was hastily scribbled in pencil.
Christies Vases: A Disquisition upon Etruscan Vases; displaying their probable connection with the shows upon Eleusis, and the Chinese Feast of Lanterns with explanations of a few of the principal allegories depicted upon them was published anonymously [by James Christie] in 1806; a second edition with considerable differences entitled Disquisitions upon the Painted Greek Vases and their probable connection with the Shows of the Eleusinian and Other Mysteries appeared over his name in 1825.
Coleridge might perhaps have known before 1825 that the work was by Christie, a prominent member of the Dilettanti.
If this entry belongs in 1819 as would be natural from its position in the notebook, Mr
Westmacott could be Sir Richard W. (1775–1856), knighted in 1837, or his son Richard (1799–1872), also R.A. (1818). The father made many statues in Westminster, St. Paul’s, and other public places, and became R.A. in 1811; a more important link with Coleridge, he was a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.
Or is MrWestmacott Charles [Molloy] Westmacott, brother of Sir Richard, editor of
various periodicals, e.g., Magazine of the Fine Arts and sometime cataloguer of the Royal Academy Exhibitions? His Descriptive and Critical Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Royal Academy (1823) is certainly critical, even caustic towards R.A.’s. Perhaps Coleridge wished to consult him about vases. Although Christie’s auction sales of vases are too numerous for positive identification, this Mr Westmacott may well have had knowledge about some painted Greek vases.
In the absence of a date, identification cannot be firm, but on 18 June 1819 there was a sale at Christie’s of painted “Greek Vases”, described in the catalogues as “of extreme rarity and great beauty, and many enriched with early GREEK INSCRIPTIONS”. There were also some “Marbles”, “a Bas Relief, and a few other fine Works of the SCHOOL OF CANOVA”, in which school Sir Richard Westmacott had studied.
4506 27.26 On electric treatment, and one of the leading “electricians” of the time, Eley Stott, see CN III 4387, and below, 4624 and nn. Was the patient here James Gillman? Or J.H.Green? In the reading He, the H is not entirely acceptable as Coleridge’s capital letter; if it is a J it carries over a stroke to the next letter, also unclear, but possibly ending in a full stop; the pen was running dry.
4507 27.27 The entry is based largely on William Mitford The History of Greece (edition unknown); six editions appeared in Coleridge’s lifetime, between 1784 and 1829. On Mitford cf Lect 8 P Lects (CC) f353.
Olen, Hymnist: Cf Mitford (1814) I 78:
hexameter verse. It seems a necessary inference that the language both of Thrace and of Lycia was Greek…and the Thracian Thamyris, or Thamyras, Orpheus, Musaeus and Eumolpus, with the Lycian Olen, were the acknowleged fathers of Grecian poetry, the acknowledged reformers of Grecian manners;… Olympus, the father of Grecian music, whose compositions, which Plato calls divine, retained the highest reputation even in Plutarch’s time, was a Phrygian. In the Grecian mythology we find continual references to Asiatic and Thracian stories; and even in the heroïc ages, which followed the mystic, the Greeks and Asiatics appear to have communicated as kindred people…. Herodotus remarks that the Lycian laws and manners, even in his time, very nearly resembled the Grecian; and the Lycians and Pamphylians were so evidently of the same race with the Greeks, that he supposed them the descendants of emigrants from Crete, from Athens, and other parts of Greece.
Trojans spoke the same language: Mitford goes on to discuss the Trojan War but does not say the Trojans spoke the same language. Coleridge no doubt inferred it from the absence of language difficulties between Greeks and Trojans in Homer, and from the Trojans, like Olympus, being Phrygians.
all Ioaones—Descendants of Javan: See CN III 4379, 4384 and nn, for Coleridge’s consistently eccentric spelling of loaones (for Ia[w]ones contracted to Iones, “Ionians”); see also below 4839 and n. In Gen 10:2–5 the sons of Javan (Septuagint , son of Japhet, divided “the isles of the Gentiles”. The name, Javan, is translated “Hellas” several times in the Septuagint. Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 1 6 has it that “from Javan Ionia and all the Greeks are derived” (tr Whiston). Bochart Geographia Sacra (1681) I 174–5, which Coleridge read also (see 4839 f122 and n) summarizes the evidence and gives the Greek spelling of Javan, which accounts for Coleridge’s. Coleridge was interested in the long traditional blending of Greek and biblical “history”.
So too the Pelasgi: Coleridge, as also in 4839 f123, is disagreeing with Mitford and others (Mitford Chap I § 2, Chap III § I) who implied that the Pelasgi were barbarians, i.e. non-Greeks, migratory and primitive, and that the Greeks sprang from a mixture of them and other primitive hordes with more civilised colonies from Phoenicia and Egypt. See Mitford (1814) I 31. Again, Mitford (I 198) refers to Herodotus VII 95 for the view that at one time the name included all peoples of Grecian race. Coleridge’s an earlier migration, barbarized is his solution of the difficulty.
Hesiod…makes no mention of manuring the ground: Cf Mitford Chap II § iii, “It is remarked by Cicero that Hesiod, in his poem on husbandry, makes no mention of manure: but Homer expressly speaks of dunging land….” I 153. Mitford, in a shoulder note, gives the reference to the Odyssey (17.299) that Coleridge cites.
f34 The juniority of the Odyssey: To the Iliad, though not to Hesiod, has always been generally accepted. Mitford did not question the implications for dating, as Coleridge did, but continued on the same page to discuss “the culture of the vine”, and cited also the Odyssey (3.90) on Nestor’s having “produced some [wine], at a sacrifice, eleven years old”.
shield made by Hephaestus for Achilles. HNC later in his Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets (1830), which owed a good deal to Coleridge’s conversation (see CN III 3656n), nevertheless maintained that the Shield of Achilles passage was not an addition but an integral “part and act of the Story itself” (87). See also his second edition (1834) 214–22. In a note to the Table Talk (12 May 1830) he said Coleridge was “a confirmed Wolfian” (in believing that Homer was the name not for one man but for numerous rhapsodists), but without having read Wolf’s Prolegomena. See also ibid 9 Jul 1832. As early as 1808 Coleridge was rejecting the “personality” of Homer as is clear from annotations on his copy of Chapman’s Homer (CM II under Homer); cf CN III 3656, also references under Homer in this volume.
4508 27.28 Coleridge attempted variously to explain the change in his opinions from Unitarianism and the more fleeting “Necessitarianism”; see 5113, also CN III 3743.
On the subject of the young being “less shocked by the doctrine of Necessity” see Lects 1795 (CC) 49n, The Friend (CC) I 338n.
Causa causarum: “Cause of causes”, a recurrent phrase; cf e.g. 4728.
4509 27.29 In pencil, lower left, at right angles to 4508 and later than it. The conjunction of names here may suggest the spring of 1819 and thoughts turning at the close of the philosophical and literary lectures towards publishers. Good Friday in 1819 was April 9, in 1820 Mar 31, in 1822 April 5, in 1823 April 10.
5th–12: See the dates at weekly intervals in 4532, possibly associated with opium
withdrawal.
the Good Friday Boon if possible: Some benefit connected with Good Friday, such as fasting, from the drug? In 1819 Good Friday was April 9, i.e. between the 5th and the
12th?
Or could Boon have been someone to be called upon, or to call, on Good Friday if possible? James Shergold Boone (1799–1859) caused a sensation in 1818–19 with his satirical poem on Oxford life, The Oxford Spy. He went down with a pass degree, throwing away brilliant abilities to lecture in London on the relation of the arts and sciences. Boone proposed and himself largely wrote a monthly periodical called The Council of Ten, of which the first of twelve issues appeared in June 1822. Did Coleridge know of him through Hartley, in 1819 in Oriel College? Was Boone seeking out Coleridge as he planned a periodical in the mode of The Friend? Or was Coleridge interested in him? The Council of Ten discussed some of Coleridge’s bêtes noires like contemporary reviewing and journalism, attacking QR and Blackwood’s among other periodicals. Boone’s bent is shown by his becoming, a few years later, editor of the British Critic and Theological Review.
There was also the Reverend Thomas Charles Boone, B.A., St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, who in 1826 published The Book of Churches and Sects, which systematically described many known and many lesser known denominations. But if Coleridge had any acquaintances with these men there is now no evidence.
1. Boosey: Thomas Boosey, publisher and bookseller with whom Coleridge had frequent dealings; see CN III 3262n. In May 1820 Coleridge turned down a proposal from him that he prepare excerpts from Faust to accompany a volume of illustrations to Goethe’s Faust: CL V 42–4 and nn.
contributions to Blackwood’s Magazine. 12 April 1819 Coleridge wrote to him a well-known letter on how his periodical ideally should be run (CL IV 931–3), and another letter 30 June 1819 (ibid 943–5). Another in a vein similar to the former was written 19 Sept 1821 (CL V 167–71), after which no letter to Blackwood until 1830 has been published.
3 Colburn: Henry Colburn? He was until July 1817 editor of the Literary Gazette, and c Feb 1819 requested Coleridge’s permission to engrave Leslie’s portrait of him for his New Monthly Magazine; it appeared there 1 April 1819. Coleridge’s letters to him (Dec 1818–July 1827) suggest that he thought of Colburn as a potential publisher; see CL V 281.
4 Holland: Possibly the “Mr Holland”, not identified, whose invitation to write for the New Monthly Magazine Coleridge acknowledged 14 Feb 1818: CL IV 838.
Or is it Lord Holland? Or his son? If the date is 1819, Coleridge perhaps considered writing to Lord Holland for support against threatened repression of freedom of assembly and a free press. Holland spoke forcefully and urbanely in the debate on the Seditious Libels Bill in Dec 1819. Coleridge had been in correspondence with the Hollands as early as Sept 1806 (CL II 1182), at which time an invitation to Holland House miscarried (CL VI 1017). In July 1810 it seems likely they met in Keswick, at which time Holland’s son, Henry Edward Fox, was with his parents. On 28 Jan 1819 the son attended one of Coleridge’s Shakespeare lectures (CN III 3972n). Later Coleridge might have wished to applaud Holland’s opposition to the Alien Bill of July 1820; see 4700 and n. Was this a list of letters to be written and matters to be attended to?
5: The last line gives rise only to speculation, like so much connected with Mrs Coleridge; she paid a long-discussed visit to Devonshire and Ottery St Mary in 1823; see 4952 and n.
4510 27.30 Rabbi Barchana for his hat: In the Babylonian Talmud, in the treatise of Baba Bathra 74a, this story of Rabba Bar Barchana tells of how, being in the desert with an Arab guide, he put his basket [for bread] in a window of heaven, while he prayed. On ending his prayers, he found it no longer there, because the heavenly wheel, revolving, had carried it away; the Arab assured him he would find it “tomorrow”.
The story is told and ascribed to “Rabba, the grandson of Chana”, as his invention, by Coleridge’s friend Hyman Hurwitz in the Essay prefatory to his Hebrew Tales (1826) 27– 9. Hurwitz adds to the story itself the statement:
It is generally supposed, that the grandson of Chana accounted for the phenomenon by supposing, according to the Ptolemaic system, that the heavens turned round the earth. [Coleridge’s annus Magnus.] But it is not improbable that, by the expression, “Come and I will shew thee where heaven and earth meet,” he intimated, that the phenomenon may be explained in two ways; either in the manner just stated, or on the Pythagorean system of the earth’s turning on its own axis: for the disappearance and re-appearance of the fictitious basket would take place on either supposition.
The annus Magnus: the “Great Year” of Jewish, Greek, and mediaeval philosophy and folklore, or the 36,000-year period for the heavenly bodies to complete their rotations in every possible combination of positions; thus, as a result of their influence on human affairs, history supposedly repeats itself every 36,000 years.
Coleridge, clearly more interested in the tale than in the astronomical principles involved (the peeping into every window as it passes is his addition as well as the annus Magnus and Fortunatus Cap). He had tried to use his influence to get the Hebrew Tales published. On his translation from German of three tales in the volume, see The Friend (CC) I 370n. Coleridge used the magic Fortunatus Cap also at the end of C&S (CC) 184.
4511 29.14 The date inserted later is in blacker ink than the entry. The quotation marks and the reference at the end are a blind. Henry Somerville is the title of A Tale by the author of Hartlebourn Castle (2 vols 1797), but it is not in a series of letters, and the passage Coleridge pretends to quote is not in it. It portrays in sentimental mawkish vein, strained human relations, which may distantly have occasioned the use of the title here to cover up some personal misery probably connected with the Gillmans’ attempts to control Coleridge’s addiction. Cf the identification with fictional sensibility in CN II 2117, 2125, and nn, CN III 3561, 4272 and nn, and below see also 5005 and n.
4512 29.15 If additional proof respecting the facts of…Animal Magnetism were necessary: Coleridge’s serious interest in animal magnetism may have begun with a reading of C.A.F.Kluge Versuch einer Darstellung des animalischen Magnetismus, als Heilmittel (Berlin 1815), his copy of which is in BM; two annotations on it are in Inq Sp § 31, § 32. A fragment of an essay on the subject (BM Add MS 36,532 ff7–12) dated 8 July 1817 is in Inq Sp § 30. His interest was continuous from 1817 and at least into 1822—see 4908 and n—generally positive or at least open-minded; see also The Friend (CC) I 59 and n I, and a letter of 1 Dec 1818 to Thomas Curtis recommending the subject for an article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana CL IV 886–7.
The contrast between the Reports of the German Magnetisers and those of the French is seen in Archiv für den thierischen Magnetismus ed. C.A. Eschenmayer, D.G.Kieser, and Fr.Nasse (12 vols Altenburg and Leipzig 1817–24).
quovis modo: “in some way.”
In Archiv I Pt iii 120–49 Kieser reviewed Annales du magnétisme animal (Paris 1814– 16), giving the 1 July 1814 date which appears on the title page.
“most believing mind”: Cf “still believing mind” in The Pang More Sharp than All: PW I 457; and “most believing heart” in To Mary Pridham: PW I 468.
f4 third Heft…Archiv…p. 127: Cf the same review in Archiv I iii esp 125–8:
is the cause of this greater ease in producing clairvoyants? Does it lie in the different method of treatment, which in general is simpler there, consisting more in the effort and fixation of the will than in artificial manipulations, and in the greater precision and certainty of treatment altogether—i.e. in the subjective strength of the magnetisers? We are not inclined to accept this, for if it were so, then there must also be individual magnetisers here in Germany, most of whose patients would become clairvoyants, and because in France even novices in magnetising produce such rapid effects. Or is it to be found generally in a greater animation, in a greater irritability of the nerves, and in a natural disposition towards somnambulism—i.e. in the objective weakness of the magnetised patients who yield the more readily to the organic influences of another person? An interesting parallel can be drawn in this connexion between the general phenomenon of animal magnetism and the national disposition of the French as a whole; for it is characteristic of animal magnetism as one of the highest manifestations of human life, that it should reflect the true image of everything relating to the inner life of a person and a people. This much at least emerges from all the facts recorded in these Annals: that in France the animal-magnetic method of treatment depends more on the will than it does in Ger-many—which would then of course allow us to conclude a greater subjective strength on the part of the magnetisers.
the French Report under Dr Franklin: Coleridge referred 8 Feb 1819 Lect 7 P Lects (CC)
f326 to a Report of Dr Franklin and Other Commissioners (1784), which was ordered by the King of France. The investigation, while admitting the fact of cures, denied the magnetists’ theory of a magnetic fluid diffused through the human body as an agency deriving from celestial influences, and susceptible to their manipulations. Coleridge agreed; see Inq Sp § 32. Mesmer himself did not claim proof. The Report described also convulsive reactions, effected through touch, pressure of hands, iron rods, and music, and argued that the results were partly the effect of physical contact, but largely of imagination.
properties of the Skin…Volition: In CN I 1827, referring back to an 1801 entry, I 1039; see also I 1826.
reactions of the whole & of all the parts: See CN II 2402 for this Coleridgian principle applied to the skin and nerves.
contagium quasi ingeneratio: “a contagion that is, so to speak, an ingeneration”. Opium…on men of feminine constitution: For Coleridge on his own lack of “manliness” (especially in comparison with WW) see CN II 3148 f45v, and Inq Sp § 221.
uterifaction: Not in OED; i.e. the whole system’s becoming the womb. despoinism: Not in OED, from δέσποινα, “mistress”, i.e. female domination.
Whether Mesmer were the Discoverer of a new Power: The defensive remarks here were called forth by the review in Archiv 1 iii 128–33, of a work antagonistic to Mesmer, on the history of mesmerism since Mesmer’s first appearance in Paris.
and medical effects and still not understood, something like a cutaneous Galυanism? See below 4639 and n.
as Galυanism to common Electricity: Several kinds of electricity were recognized in the early 19th century, and it was left to Faraday to demonstrate that “common” and galvanic electricity are identical. “Common” electricity was produced by friction; galvanic electricity by the contact of two dissimilar metals through the intermedium of an electrolyte, as in the Voltaic pile; animal electricity was produced e.g. by the electric eel. There was some discussion as to whether nervous action was essentially electrical in its transmission.
Of the other work of the editors of this Archiv, Coleridge knew best Eschenmayer’s: see CN III 4435n and in this volume 4633 and n. For more use of the Archiv see 4624, 4809 and nn.
4513 29.16 In appearance like 4512, and probably datable close to it, 16 April 1819. Two-thirds of a page after this entry was left blank. Coleridge refers to this entry as elucidating 4644 ff26v–27v; see 4644.
The ancient Mathematicians: See 5294 f20v 5406 and nn.
a line…engendered by a point producing itself: I.e. Coleridge’s dy.00000namic hypotheses in mathematical terms; see, in addition to the entries referred to above, 4718, 4974; also 4538 where Schelling is in the background, as possibly here, and in Chap XII BL (CC) I 249–50. But see also Coleridge’s interest in fluxions in 4797 and n.
The words engendered and producing are key terms. For the Naturphilosoph, Nature is alive, developing, and unified in its quantitative accretions and qualitative changes from within. It produces, and is product, active and passive. See Schelling Einleitung 5, 22, 30. All evolution in Nature begins from a point, which is finite, unlike productivity, which is potentially infinite. A line produced from a point, says Schelling (32 foll) is “unendlich”.
Schelling takes this metaphor for production even further in his “All-gemeine Deduction des dynamischen Processes” in Zeitschrift für spekulativ Physik I (Jena & Leipzig 1800) i 100–36, and ii 1–87; Coleridge’s copy, heavily annotated, is in the BM.
In these essays Schelling proposes magnetism, electricity, and chemical process as the three general categories of physics (i 102). He postulates attractive and expansive forces which, because of their opposition (+——0——−) constitute the dimension of length. A line in nature requires three points (i 109), like a magnetic axis. It follows (i 112) that length in nature “can exist only under the form of magnetism”. The first act of differentiation, metaphorically represented by a point producing itself into a line, is thus the production of magnetism.
The next productive step is the qualitative transition to electricity from magnetism, represented metaphorically by a dimensional transition from length to breadth or surface, as electric bodies (i 124–5) are electric over their whole surface. An analogous dimensional change takes place from surface to depth, from electricity to chemical process, which acts in depth.
For Coleridge the physical powers of magnetism, electricity, and galvanism are symbols of ideal powers, so that the more abstract metaphors of geometrical terms are perhaps more congenial because they make clear the difference between phenomenal and noumenal.
theorem (i.e. Actus…contemplans): I.e. the theorem is “the Act of one contemplating thus and not otherwise, contemplating itself as thing contemplated”. Coleridge calls attention to the derivation of theorem from θεώρηµα, “contemplation”; cf below 4895 and n, 5404 f86; LS: SM (CC) 49nn and The Friend (CC) I 459 and nn.
theses (θεσεις): Again a derivation being noted; literally “puttings”, or “settings”, or “positions”.
from right to leaf: A curious slip.
to manifest itself is to produce itself: For a more elaborate treatment of themes and terms in this and the next paragraph, see CN III 4418, 4427, and 4436 and nn; they recur frequently in subsequent entries in this volume, e.g. 4550, 5090, and 5092; this entry may also reflect some general reaction to H.Steffens’s system of polarities, perhaps in part to his Grundzüge; Coleridge in his marginalia on that work, and on Schelling’s Einleitung, came to reject the argument he is trying to summarize here.
4514 29.17 The entry appears to be datable with 4511, c 16 April 1819. The end of it was compressed in being written around CN III 4203. Four leaves were torn out after this 4514, as indicated by Coleridge’s own numbering (see CN III N 29 Gen N) but as no stubs were left, the foliating provides no evidence of this but is continuous.
Coleridge here abbreviated an article in The London Medical Repository (August 1816) VI 89–97 “On the Poisonous Effects of the Bark of Angustura Pseudo-ferruginea, or spurious Angustura Bark”, by the toxicologist A.G.F.Emmert of Tübingen. Emmert distinguished between the genuine angustura from the West Indies [?quinine] and the spurious from the East Indies [?strychnine] or at least referred to the genus Strychnos, the plant from which the latter comes. He described experiments on animals with “Dr Meyer” finding its action violently poisonous with “a frequent convulsive pulse; an anxious and frightened look etc”. “The imperfect conversion of the venous into arterial blood” is Emmert’s phrase. On p.92–3 is recorded the likeness to Hydrophobia, the increased Sensitiveness in sight and hearing, and the case of a five-year-old boy who remained conscious and rational till the moment of death.
Emmert said that “every impression, however light—the touch of a fly, for instance, on any sensible part of the body, excites the sensation of an electric shock” (92) and (94) that the “effects…are felt in the blood vessels, and all parts of the body that are either furnished with them, or cover them as a thin cuticle”. The parallel with saliva of rabies is Coleridge’s, no doubt induced by the next article, “Observations on Hydrophobia” by R. Bellingham, and by James Gillman’s interest in that subject. Gillman had published a paper on it in 1812 (referred to as an “ingenious Dissertation” in the same periodical, No 2 for 1814 p 386); see also 4719 and n below.
Few and doubtful organic changes…after Death! “Putridity is at least not strikingly promoted or retarded by this poison. It leaves no organic changes in any part of the body.” Emmert 93.
English chemist-inventors and experimenters of this date—William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828) and Humphry Davy.
Rubigo υirosa: Angustura virosa, the poisonous angustura, is so mentioned (Emmert 89) but no Rubigo. Is the Rubigo the bitter poisonous constituent of the spurious angustura?
Fluate of iron: Fluorine, a fairly recent discovery, analagous to the other halogens (chlorine, iodine, fluorine, etc) partakes of the easterly power of oxygen (see 4555 f49) which corresponds to contraction (cf 4719n). On the basis of this analogy, corresponding to the physiological action of the spurious angustura, Coleridge is suggesting the presence of the salt, Fluate of Iron now called a fluoride. Emmert 93 referred only to salts of iron.
Excess of Astringent+Contractive: I.e. Attraction modified by Contraction creates an excess of astringency.
Saliva rabipea: Rabies-causing saliva. See 4719 and n.
Coleridge’s last paragraph may have been occasioned by an article in the same number of the London Medical Repository (VI 118–32) on sM.J.B.Orfila Traité des Poisons Vol 2, in which rabies as being either “spontaneous” or “communicated”, is discussed, as well as cholera, “malignant fever”, “gaseous poisons”, and “poisoning generally”. This article was followed by “Observations on the Harveian Doctrine of the Circu-lation of the Blood” (pp 132–43 by George Kerr), in which subject Coleridge showed interest in CN III 4448. He could hardly fail to go on to read the next piece on “the Incubus, or Night-mare, disturbed Sleep, Terrific Dreams, and Nocturnal Visions”.
2 senses of the term, Probability: See 4809 and 5248 and nn.
The Lottery was an almost obsessive analogy; see CN II 2060, 2330, 2579, 2753; CN III 3343. See also LS (CC) 123n.
f6v Solifidianists: Instead of the common use to mean believers in salvation by faith
alone, Coleridge often applies the word to one who believes in one source or cause only (e.g. as here of disease).
“unique phenomenon”.
απαξλεγοµενον: “unique statement/a nonce word” here, “an unique occurrence”. mon archists: Miarchist is not in OED; Coleridge is playing with two Greek prefixes meaning “one”.
µονηη µιατηςλυσσαςαρχη: “a sole or one cause of frenzy”.
4515 29.21 This entry and 4516 appear to have been inserted on pages that were left blank, apparently out of a hope to continue the verses on Joan of Arc; see 4516 and CN III 4202 and nn. Although an 1815 date for these entries may be suggested by the references to Leibnitz here and in Chap VIII and Chap XIII of BL, more reasonable appears to be a date close to 4511–4512, which are similar in hand. This entry, followed by 4516, runs on to the top of f8v on which the “Advertisement” of the Greek Grammar
(CN III 4210) had already been written in June 1814 filling in part of the blank, but at that time Coleridge left the top half of f8v empty, either for more Joan of Arc verses or for
a title for the grammar; hence the exception in these MSS of an entry beginning low down on a blank page; see CN II 4210n.
