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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE CRITICAL HERITAGE VOLUME 1 17941834 THE CRITICAL - photo 1
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
VOLUME 1, 17941834
THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES
General Editor: B.C.Southam


The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writers work and its place within a literary tradition.


The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little published documentary material, such as letters and diaries.


Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the writers death.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
VOLUME 1, 17941834
THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
Edited by
J.R.DE J.JACKSON
First Published in 1968 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE 29 West 35th - photo 2

First Published in 1968

11 New Fetter Lane
London EC4P 4EE
&
29 West 35th Street
New York, NY10001

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Compilation, introduction, notes and index 1968 J.R.De J.Jackson

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

ISBN 0-415-13442-0 (Print Edition)
ISBN 0-203-19875-1 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-19878-6 (Glassbook Format)

General Editors Preface


The reception given to a writer by his contemporaries and near-contemporaries is evidence of considerable value to the student of literature. On one side we learn a great deal about the state of criticism at large and in particular about the development of critical attitudes towards a single writer; at the same time, through private comments in letters, journals or marginalia, we gain an insight upon the tastes and literary thought of individual readers of the period. Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the writers historical situation, the nature of his immediate reading-public, and his response to these pressures.

The separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a record of this early criticism. Clearly for many of the highly-productive and lengthily-reviewed nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, there exists an enormous body of material; and in these cases the volume editors have made a selection of the most important views, significant for their intrinsic critical worth or for their representative quality perhaps even registering incomprehension!

For earlier writers, notably pre-eighteenth century, the materials are much scarcer and the historical period has been extended, sometimes far beyond the writers lifetime, in order to show the inception and growth of critical views which were initially slow to appear.

In each volume the documents are headed by an Introduction, discussing the material assembled and relating the early stages of the authors reception to what we have come to identify as the critical tradition. The volumes will make available much material which would otherwise be difficult of access and it is hoped that the modern reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways in which literature has been read and judged.

B.C.S.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


My obligations to previous studies of Coleridges reputation will be obvious throughout this volume. Laurence Wynns unpublished Ph.D. dissertation (The Reputation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Among His Contemporaries in England, Princeton 1951), deserves particular mention for having provided a very helpful starting point. I am grateful to the following institutions for answering letters of inquiry or furnishing photographic copies of scarce reviews: the Library, Queens University, Belfast; Yale University Library; the British Museum Newspaper Library, Colindale. The North Library of the British Museum, where most of the work was done, was a haven of efficiency and co-operation. Professor George Whalley and Eric Rothstein kindly solved puzzles which had baffled me; my wifes help has made the drudgery of proof-reading a pleasure.

The following publishers have permitted the reprinting of copyright materials: the Clarendon Press, Oxford (The Collected Letters ofSamuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs, Oxford 1956; TheLetters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years, ed.
Ernest de Selincourt, Oxford, 1937); Columbia University Press (NewLetters of Robert Southey, ed. Kenneth Curry, New York and London 1965); J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd. (The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P.P.Howe, London and Toronto 190034; Henry Crabb Robinson On Books and Their Writers, ed. Edith J.Morley, London 1938; TheLetters of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E.V.Lucas, London 1935); and the Nonesuch Press (Minnow Among Tritons, ed. Stephen Potter, London 1934).

NOTE ON THE TEXT


Certain alterations have been made in the materials presented in this volume. Obvious printers errors have been silently corrected; lengthy quotations which were merely repetitive have been omitted, but the omissions are indicated; decorative capital letters at the opening of reviews, long ss, titles and abbreviations have been made to conform with modern usage. Page references in the reviews have been deleted and redundant punctuation has been pruned. The spelling of Shakespeares name has been made uniform. Original footnotes are indicated by a star () or a dagger (); square brackets within quotations indicate the reviewers insertionselsewhere they draw attention to editorial corrections.

The following forms of reference have been used:

BL: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. J.Shawcross (London 1907), 2 vols.

CL: The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs (Oxford 1956 ), 4 vols.

Howe: The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P.P.Howe (London and Toronto 19304), 21 vols.

Hayden: John O.Hayden, The Romantic Reviewers 18021824 (London 1969).

Nangle: Benjamin Christie Nangle, The Monthly Review SecondSeries 17901815 (Oxford 1955).

PW: The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed.
Ernest Hartley Coleridge (Oxford 1912), 2 vols.

Wellesley Index: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 18241900, ed. Walter E.Houghton (London and Toronto 1966 ), 1 vol.

Introduction
I


Reviewers are remembered for their mistakes. When they recognize genius we imagine that it must have been self-evident; when they do not we suppose them to have been wilfully obtuse. One has only to add our common assumption that what we regard as great literature must be great in some absolute sense, to see why they occupy such a humble place in literary history.

The relationship of a writer to his reviewers is generally discussed from the writers point of view. Looked at from the point of view of the reviewer, however, it takes on a different aspect. The reviewers job, after all, is to read what is published, the bad as well as the good, and to select for his contemporaries the few works which he thinks they will enjoy. If he is high-minded he will also feel it his duty to draw to their attention works which they may not like at first but which he believes are nevertheless of merit. He is forced by the conditions of his profession to read rapidly and widely and to expose his reactions immediately in print. The more original and demanding a work is, the harder it is for him to respond to it adequately.

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