Coleridge- Darker Reflections

by Richard Holmes

  181Notebooks, II, 2860.

  182Ibid, 2860.

  183Chambers, p. 190.

  184Letters, II, p. 1173.

  185Biographia, I, p. 216 and note.

  186Sultana, p. 394.

  187Notebooks, II, 2861.

  188Ibid, 2861.

  189P.W., p. 498 and Notebooks, II, 2865.

  190Letters, IV, p. 569.

  191Letters, II, p. 1176.

  192S.P., p. 192; P.W., p. 456.

  193Letters, II, p. 1177.

  Chapter 2: The Sense of Home

  1Letters, II, p. 1176.

  2Notebooks, II, 3322.

  3Ibid, 2233.

  4Ibid, 2868.

  5Ibid, 2880; see S.P., p. 88 for published version.

  6Letters, II, pp. 1186–7.

  7Letters, II, p. 1182.

  8Ibid, p. 1178.

  9Ibid, p. 1178.

  10S.P., p. 22; P.W., pp. 402–3.

  11Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, pp. 78–9.

  12Lamb, II, p. 240.

  13Letters, II, p. 1181.

  14Ibid, p. 1188.

  15Ibid, p. 1191.

  16Letters, III, p. 8.

  17Letters, II, p. 1187.

  18Ibid, p. 1189.

  19Ibid, p. 1192.

  20Ibid, p. 1197.

  21Notebooks, II, 2893.

  22Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, pp. 86–7.

  23Notebooks, II, 2938.

  24Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 78.

  25Ibid, p. 110.

  26Letters, II, p. 1199.

  27Ibid, p. 1200.

  28Southey, I, pp. 44–9.

  29Notebooks, II, 2935.

  30Letters, II, p. 1203.

  31Notebooks, II, 2934, 2937.

  32Shorter Works, I, p. 185.

  33Ibid, p. 179.

  34Letters, III, p. 6.

  35Hartley, p. xxxi.

  36Letters, II, p. 1205.

  37J.B. Frith, Highways and Byways in Leicestershire, 1926, pp. 150–2.

  38Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 98, p. 110.

  39Letters, III, p. 1.

  40Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 110.

  41Ibid, p. 110.

  42Ibid, p. 124.

  43Ibid, p. 121.

  44Notebooks, II, 2984.

  45Ibid, 2975.

  46Ibid, 3148.

  47Ibid, 3328.

  48Ibid, 3148.

  49Notebooks, II, 2975, Notes.

  50Notebooks, IV, 4537.

  51S.P., pp. 60–1; P.W., pp. 406–7 text contains alternatives and suppressed versions.

  52Ibid, pp. 61–2; Ibid, p. 406.

  53Moorman, 2, p. 95.

  54Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 150.

  55Notebooks, II, 2998.

  56S.P., p. 187.

  57S.P., p. 246; P.W., p. 498.

  58Notebooks, II, 2997.

  59S.P., p. 188; P.W., p. 498.

  60Ibid, p. 249; Notebooks, II, 2991

  61Notebooks, II, 2998.

  62Ibid., 2988.

  63Letters, III, p. 5.

  64Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 138.

  65Letters, III, pp. 24–5.

  66Ibid, p. 14.

  67Ibid, p. 7.

  68Ibid, p. 7.

  69Ibid, pp. 8–9n.

  70Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, pp. 176, 184.

  71Letters, III, pp. 9–11.

  72Hartley, pp. xxxiv–v.

  73Letters, III, p. 12.

  74Ibid, p. 22.

  75Ibid, p. 18.

  76Notebooks, II, 3041N.

  77Ibid, p. 3048 and Notes.

  78Letters, III, p. 22.

  79Notebooks, II, 3064.

  80Ibid, 3072.

  81Ibid, 3100.

  82Ibid, 3078.

  83Ibid, 3078.

  84Poole, II, p. 184.

  85Letters, III, p. 20.

  86Friend, II, p. 118.

  87Letters, III, p. 25.

  88Poole, II. p. 185.

  89Letters, III, p. 21.

  90Ibid, p. 19.

  91Ibid, p. 9n; p. 102n.

  92Ibid, p. 25.

  93Notebooks, II, 3024.

  94De Quincey, p. 122.

  95Ibid, pp. 122–3.

  96Ibid, pp. 121–2.

  97Ibid, p. 47.

  98Grevel Lindop, A Life of Thomas De Quincey, Dent, 1981, p. 145.

  99Notebooks, II, 3108.

  100Letters, III, p. 23.

  101Poole, II, p. 190.

  102Letters, III, p. 26.

  103Notebooks, II, 3128.

  104Ibid, 3164.

  105Ibid, 3161.

  106Ibid, 3094; Poole, II, p. 200.

  107Poole, II, p. 195.

  108S.P., p. 245; P.W., p. 486.

  109Ibid, p. 190; Ibid, p. 409.

  110Notebooks, II, 3107.

  111Ibid, 3107.

  112Ibid, 3137.

  113Ibid, 3151.

  114Ibid, 3159.

  Chapter 3: The Lecture Shirt

  1Poole, II, p. 193.

  2Notebooks, II, 3148.

  3Letters, III, p. 30.

  4Ibid, p. 38.

  5Notebooks, II, 3182.

  6Letters, III, p. 29.

  7British Library, Add. Mss 47,523.

  8Notebooks, II, 3246; Literary Lectures, I, p. 66.

  9Poole, II, p. 203.

  10Lindop, op. cit., p. 137, 147.

  11Letters, III, p. 34n.

  12Lindop, op. cit., p. 146.

  13Letters, III, p. 33, p. 73.

  14Letters, III, p. 37.

  15Dove Cottage Mss, (Morgan 6 July 1808).

  16Letters, III, pp. 37–8.

  17Ibid, p. 46.

  18Ibid, p. 36.

  19S.P., p. 204; P.W., p. 411.

  20Notebooks, II, 3146.

  21Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 183.

  22Ibid, p. 188.

  23Davy’s Laboratory Notebook, quoted in David Knight, Humphry Davy: Science and Power, Oxford, 1992, p. 66.

  24Royal Institution Minutes, 1808.

  25Literary Lectures, I, pp. 36–7.

  26Letters, III, p. 51.

  27De Quincey, p. 131.

  28Royal Institution Archives, 1808.

  29Literary Lectures, I, p. 16.

  30Ibid, pp. lvi–lx.

  31Letters, III, p. 52.

  32Ibid, p. 73.

  33Ibid, p. 60.

  34Ibid, p. 51.

  35Lamb, III, p. 274

  36Royal Institution Archive, Davy.

  37Literary Lectures, I, p. 147.

  38Letters, III, p. 61.

  39Ibid, p. 73.

  40Ibid, 47.

  41Ibid, p. 67.

  42Ibid, p. 66.

  43Ibid, p. 73.

  44Ibid, p. 68.

  45Ibid, p. 76.

  46Ibid, p. 75.

  47Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 196.

  48Moorman, II, p. 118.

  49Moorman, II, p. 118N.

  50Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 238.

  51Literary Lectures, I, p. 65.

  52Ibid, pp. 67–8.

  53Ibid, pp. 81–2.

  54Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 208.

  55Ibid, p. 207.

  56Ibid, p. 230.

  57Ibid, p. 209; Moorman, II, p. 126.

  58Literary Lectures, I, p. 82.

  59Ibid, p. 118.

  60Ibid, p. 145.

  61Literary Lectures, I, p. xlvi.

  62Ibid, p. 149.

  63Ibid, p. 143.

  64Ibid, pp. 114–5.

  65Ibid, pp. 131–2.

  66Ibid, pp. 134–5.

  67Letters, III, pp. 96–7.

  68Literary Lectures, I, p. 99.

  69Ibid, p. 102.

  70Ibid, p. 105.

  71Ibid, pp. 106–8.

  72Ibid, p. 103.

  73Letters, III, p. 98.

  74Ibid, p. 101.

  75Ibid, p. 98.

  76Ibid, pp. 107–8.

  77Ibid, pp, 108–9.

  78Ibid, p. 86, see Early V
isions, Chapter 3.

  79Ibid, p. 85N.

  80Notebooks, III, 3304.

  81Ibid, 3325.

  82Ibid, 3314.

  83S.P., p. 247; P.W., p. 412.

  84Notebooks, III, 3320.

  85Ibid, 3342.

  86Ibid, 3303, 3343, 3347.

  87Letters, III, p. 111.

  88Ibid, p. 111N.

  89Literary Lectures, I, pp. 144–5.

  90Ibid, p. 122.

  91Royal Institution Archives; Letters, III, pp. 117–8.

  92Letters, III, p. 104.

  93Notebooks, III, 3304.

  94Letters, III, p. 116.

  95Ibid, pp. 110–11.

  96Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 245.

  97Ibid, p. 240.

  98Ibid, p. 244.

  99Letters, III, pp. 78, 117.

  100Lamb, III, pp. 289, 284.

  101Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 256.

  102Letters, III, pp. 148–9; Shorter Works, p. 227.

  103Shorter Works, I, p. 233.

  104Letters, III, p. 179.

  105Deirdre Coleman, ‘Jeffrey and Coleridge’, in The Wordsworth Circle, XVIII (1987).

  106 Letters, III, pp. 124–5.

  107Ibid, p. 97.

  108Dove Cottage Mss, Morgan.

  109Letters, III, pp. 141–2.

  110Ibid, p. 174.

  111‘The Twelve-Step Treatment’, Institute for Drug Dependency, London.

  Chapter 4: The Friend in Need

  1Dove Cottage Mss, Clarkson.

  2Notebooks, III, 3349.

  3Ibid, 3355.

  4Ibid, 3352.

  5Ibid, 3353.

  6Friend, II, p. 9.

  7Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 270.

  8Letters, III, p. 120n.

  9Notebooks, III, 3370.

  10Letters, III, pp. 120–1.

  11Ibid, p. 122.

  12Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 282.

  13Sara Coleridge (daughter), Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge, edited by Edith Coleridge, 2 vols, 1873, I, pp. 17–20.

  14Letters, III, p. 121.

  15Sara Coleridge (daughter), Memoir, op. cit., pp. 17–20.

  16P.W., p. 500; Notebooks, III, 3379.

  17Notebooks, III, 3376.

  18Ibid, 3386.

  19Ibid, 3383.

  20Ibid, 3386.

  21Ibid, 3388.

  22Ibid, 3403; S.P., p. 220; P.W., pp. 484–5.

  23Letters, III, pp. 130–1.

  24Lamb, II, pp. 287–8.

  25Dove Cottage Mss, Morgan.

  26Letters, III, p. 143.

  27Ibid, p. 144.

  28Friend, II, pp. 16–17.

  29Ibid, p. 18.

  30Letters, III, p. 135.

  31Ibid, pp. 125–6.

  32Ibid, p. 150.

  33Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, pp. 276–7.

  34Notebooks, III, 3407.

  35Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, pp. 282–3.

  36Letters, III, p. 140.

  37Ibid, p. 140.

  38Ibid, p. 141n.

  39E.V. Lucas, Charles Lamb and the Lloyds, 1898, pp. 241–2.

  40Letters, III, p. 160.

  41Ibid, p. 169.

  42Ibid, p. 175.

  43Ibid, p. 173.

  44Ibid, p. 176.

  45Ibid, p. 177.

  46Ibid, p. 178.

  47Friend, I, p. xiv.

  48Letters, III, p. 179.

  49Ibid, p. 180.

  50Ibid, pp. 181, 184.

  51Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 293.

  52Letters, III, p. 183.

  53Friend, I, p. lxxi and note.

  54Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 325.

  55Ibid, p. 310.

  56Letters, III, p. 193.

  57Ibid, p. 204.

  58Ibid, p. 204n.

  59Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 356.

  60Ibid, p. 332–6.

  61Ibid, pp. 350.

  62Ibid, pp. 352–3.

  63Letters, III, p. 211.

  64Friend, I, p. 277.

  65Ibid, p. 73.

  66Friend, II, pp. 116–7.

  67Ibid, pp. 120–1.

  68Lamb, III, p. 26.

  69Friend, II, p. 141.

  70Ibid, p. 142.

  71Ibid, pp. 146–7; see Early Visions, Chapter 5.

  72Ibid, p. 147.

  73Letters, III, pp. 226–7.

  74Ibid, p. 233N.

  75Friend, I, p. lxiv, note.

  76Letters, III, pp. 253–4.

  77Moorman II p. 144.

  78Friend, I, p. ix, note.

  79Ibid, p. lix.

  80Friend, II, p. 150.

  81Letters, III, pp. 253–4.

  82Ibid, p. 254.

  83Friend, II, pp. 495–9.

  84Ibid, pp. 151–2.

  85Ibid, p. 494.

  86Ibid, p. 189.

  87Ibid, p. 187.

  88S.P., pp. 206–7; P.W., p. 413.

  89Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 391.

  90Ibid, pp. 374–5.

  91Deirdre Coleman, Coleridge and ‘The Friend’, Oxford, 1981, p. 41.

  92Notebooks, III, 3483–4.

  93Ibid, 3539.

  94Ibid, 3562.

  95Ibid, 3430.

  96Ibid, 3547.

  97Ibid, 3498.

  98Ibid, 3555.

  99Letters, III, p. 262.

  100Ibid, p. 261.

  101Friend, I, p. xciv, note.

  102Friend, II, p. 253.

  103Ibid, p. 252.

  104Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 382.

  105Notebooks, 3593.

  106Ibid, p. 3593.

  107Letters, III, pp. 270n, 284; Friend, I, p. lxx, note.

  108Friend, II, p. 283.

  109Ibid, p. 282.

  110Letters, III, p. 271.

  111Friend, II, p. 501.

  112Friend, I, p. lxvi.

  113Letters, III, pp. 271–2.

  114Essays, II, pp. 37–100.

  115Moorman, II, p. 172.

  116Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 397.

  117Notebooks, III, 3705.

  118Letters, III, p. 273.

  119Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, pp. 389–91.

  120Friend, II, pp. 285–7.

  121Ibid, p. 298.

  122Ibid, p. 291.

  123For a superb study of men under fire in the Napoleonic period, see ‘Waterloo’, in The Face of Battle by John Keegan, Pimlico, 1991.

  124Friend, II, p. 293.

  125Dictionary of National Biography, Nelson.

  126Friend, II, p. 305; Coleman, op. cit., p. 172.

  127Letters, III. p. 280.

  128Ibid, p. 281.

  129Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 391.

  130Notebooks, III, 3692.

  131Friend, II, p. 365.

  132Notebooks, III, 3708.

  133Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, p. 398.

  134Letters, III, p. 287.

  135Ibid, pp. 285–6.

  136Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, pp. 398–9

  137Ibid, pp. 399–400.

  138S.P., p. 192; P.W., p. 456.

  Chapter 5: In the Dark Chamber

  1Dove Cottage Mss, Morgan.

  2Wordsworth, Middle Years, I, pp. 407–8.

  3Minnow, p. 11.

  4Minnow, p. 14.

  5Notebooks, III, 3748.

  6Ibid, 3720; see Early Visions, p. 289 and note.

  7Letters, III, p. 375; Shorter Works, I, pp. 260–9.

  8Letters, III, p. 290.

  9Ibid, p. 284.

  10Minnow, pp. 12–14.

  11Southey, I, p. 537.

  12Notebooks, III, 3796.

  13Notebooks, II, 2531.

  14Notebooks, III, 3795.

  15Ibid, 3826.

  16Ibid, 3912.

  17Ibid, 3874.

  18Ibid, 3831.

  19Southey, I, p. 537.

  20Notebooks, III, 3731.

  21Ibid, 3762.

  22Ibid, 3824.

  23Ibid, 3763.


  24Ibid, 3784.

  25Ibid, 3818.

  26Ibid, 3835.