Coleridge (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Coleridge

The supply of material for a Life of Coleridge is fairly plentiful, though it is not very easily come by. For the most part it needs to be hunted up or fished up - those accustomed to the work will appreciate the difference between the two processes - from a consider able variety of contemporary documents. Completed biography of the poet-philosopher there is none, as has been said, in existence; and the one volume of the unfinished I/ife left us by Mr. Gillman-a name never to be mentioned with disrespect, however difficult it may sometimes be to avoid doing so, by any one who honours the name and genius of Coleridge - covers, and that in but a loose and rambling fashion, no more than a few years. Mr. Cottle's Recollections of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge contains some valuable information on cer tain points of importance, as also does the Letters, Con versations, etc., of S. T. C'. By Mr. Allsop. Miss Meteyard's Group of Eminent Englishmen throws much light on the relations between Coleridge and his early patrons the Wedgwoods. Everything, whether critical or biographi cal, that De Quincey wrote on Coleridgian matters re quires, with whatever discount, to be carefully studied.

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