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by Richard Holmes


  Inchbald, Elizabeth, 267

  Individuation, 479

  Ireland: STC’s dislike of, 226

  Ireland, Mrs (“Mrs Carnosity”; fellow passenger on Mediterranean journey), 3, 6, 15–16

  Irving, Edward, 487n, 549

  Italy: STC in, 50–61; British nationals expelled from, 59; in STC’s poetry, 552

  Jackson (English consul, Rome), 51–2, 59

  Jackson, William, 33

  Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 401n

  Jacobinism, 169–71, 404, 449

  Jameson, Robert, 520, 527

  Jean-Paul see Richter, Jean-Paul

  Jeffrey, Francis: accepts STC’s essay on Clarkson’s slavery book, 141–3; and launch of The Friend, 151–4; subscribes to The Friend, 161; and Scott’s Lady of the Lake, 208; criticises Wordsworth’s “Excursion”, 382; and Byron’s plea to Moore to praise STC, 415; Southey offers to defend STC against, 446

  Jerningham, Edward, 128, 135

  Jerningham, Lady, 236

  Jews: STC’s sympathy for, 460–1

  Johnson, Samuel, 129, 190, 223, 247, 265, 271, 276, 280, 284; Dictionary, 394n; Notes to the Complete Edition of Shakespeare, 282

  Jordan, Dorothea, 331, 416

  Josephus, 419

  Jung, Carl Gustav, 495n

  Kant, Immanuel: STC discusses with De Quincey, 100; STC cites in lectures, 127, 227; STC discusses with Crabb Robinson, 224–5; Rigaud discusses, 248; and STC’s supposed plagiarism, 280n, 401n; STC proposes study of, 379, 391; STC embraces doctrines, 393–4; and Imagination, 400, 405, 408; Magee on, 411n; and religious belief, 412; STC expounds, 437; John Wilson accuses STC of ignorance of, 454; Anthropologie, 394n; The Critique of Judgement, 360, 398; Critique of Pure Reason, 398

  Keats, George (John’s brother), 497–8

  Keats, John: death, 52; and STC’s willing suspension of disbelief, 130n; on monsters in STC’s poetry, 140n; absent from STC’s Shakespeare lectures, 267; discusses STC, 432; at Guy’s Hospital, 450; regard for STC’s writings, 456; meets STC and Wordsworth, 464; reads Cary’s translation of Dante, 468; on Hazlitt’s damning, 472n; political radicalism, 478; meets STC in Highgate, 496–500, 534; tuberculosis, 496–7; opium dream, 498; “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, 498; “The Dream”, 498; “Endymion”, 438; “Hyperion”, 496, 500; “Isabella, or the Pot of Basil”, 467; “Ode to the Nightingale”, 498; Otho the Great, 323n; “St Agnes Eve”, 500

  Keats, Tom (John’s brother), 496

  Keble, John, 514

  Kelley, Miss (of Highgate), 511

  Kelly, Michael, 332

  Kendal: STC visits after return from Mediterranean, 70, 72, 74–5; STC attempts to print The Friend in, 157–8; STC revisits after Shakespeare lectures, 289–90

  Kent, Edward Augustus, Duke of, 265

  Kenwood House, Highgate, 427

  Kepler, Johann, 482, 491

  Keswick see Greta Hall

  Kiddle (of Bristol), 344

  Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, 246

  Knight, Richard Payne: An Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of Taste, 118

  knowledge, 461–2

  Kropotkin, Peter, 540n

  Krusve, Bernard, 271, 275–6

  Kubla Khan: missing section, 113; sacred caves, 175; and STC’s opium addiction, 216; and Remorse, 324n; unfinished, 372; unmentioned in Biographia Literaria, 380; copy found at Calne, 387, 404; Preface, 409, 435, 436n, 458; STC recites to Byron, 425–6, 457; Murray publishes, 426, 429, 431; reception, 434–5, 533; and ‘person from Porlock’, 435–6; water-imagery in, 435; unconscious composition, 436n; Wordsworth’s silence on, 458; and Lockhart, 509; and STC’s later poems, 547, 556

  Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de, 479

  Lamb, Captain, 47

  Lamb, Charles: and STC’s journey abroad, 1; and STC’s return from Italy, 64, 66; meets George Fricker, 71; uses Poole’s bookroom, 95; friendship with Morgan, 111; letter to Manning on STC’s lectures, 119; letters from STC, 119; on Wordsworth coming to London, 122; Wordsworth shows “The White Doe” to, 125; relief at STC’s recovery, 142; doubts success of The Friend, 151; encourages STC’s writing in The Friend, 169; and STC’s return to London at Montagus’ invitation, 215; STC visits, 222, 224–5, 233, 236, 423; in Crabb Robinson’s diaries, 223; and Hogarth’s “Rake’s Progress”, 255; and STC’s Shakespeare lectures, 257, 267, 273; defends STC to Crabb Robinson, 258; on Morgans’ kindness to STC, 263; hosts party for STC’s lectures, 271–2; and STC’s quarrel with Wordsworth, 299–301, 303; on Charlotte Brent’s resemblance to Asra, 312; STC describes opium-addiction symptoms to, 358; approves of Hartley’s visit to STC at Calne, 385; Mary Morgan writes to on writing of Biographia Literaria, 391–2; writes to Wordsworth on STC’s moving in with Gillman, 429; praises STC, 430; turned away by Gillman, 430–1; entertains Wordsworth and STC, 463–4; at Haydon’s “immortal dinner”, 464; invited to STC’s 1818 lectures, 465; on Hazlitt’s articles on STC, 472n; and Hartley’s writing for London Magazine, 518; on Sara junior’s learning, 534; at Monkhouse’s dinner party, 536–7; visits STC in Highgate, 551; bequest from STC, 559; “Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago”, 519; The Essays of Elia, 480, 492n, 519; “Two Classes of Men”, 492n

  Lamb, Mary: cares for STC, 66, 94, 215; Dorothy Wordsworth writes to, 68; persuades STC to write to wife, 69; George Fricker meets, 71; helps with STC’s marriage difficulties, 94; feels rejected by STC, 142; and STC’s breach with Wordsworth, 215; on STC’s cheerfulness, 222; mental problems, 233, 236; released from asylum, 255; and writing of Biographia Literaria, 391–2; and STC’s meeting with Wordsworth, 464

  Lancaster, Joseph, 131–2, 273

  Landor, Walter Savage, 161, 280n

  Landseer, John, 119

  Lane (tutor to Ball’s son), 17

  language: STC on, 73n

  Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquis of, 373–4, 391

  laudanum see opium

  Law, William, 145, 399

  Lawrence, D.H., 20

  Lawrence, T.E.: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 266n

  Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 122–3

  Leake, Captain, 31

  Leckie, G.F., 21–2, 26–8, 50

  Leckie, Mrs G.F., 22

  Leeds, 145

  Leighton, Robert, Archbishop of Glasgow, 525, 533, 538–9; see also Coleridge, S.T.: Works: Prose: Aids to Reflection

  Leslie, Charles Robert, 486; portrait of STC, 487

  Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 276

  Leviathan, HMS, 2, 6

  Lewes, George Henry, 367n

  Liberal, The (journal), 367n

  Lincoln’s Inn Fields: STC’s seminars in, 524

  Linnaeus, Carl, 43, 482

  Literary Fund (later Royal Literary Fund): makes grant to STC, 421

  Literary Gazette, 454

  Literary Panorama, The (magazine), 434

  Littlehampton, Sussex, 458–9

  Liverpool, 289–91

  Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of, 475, 505, 531–2

  Livorno, Italy, 57–60

  Lloyd family, 156

  Lloyd, Agatha, 156–7

  Lloyd’s Bank: and Morgans’ debts, 343, 345–6

  Locke, John, 246, 379, 391, 393

  Lockhart, John Gibson, 508–9, 554

  Logos: STC on, 72–3

  London: STC stays in on return from Italy, 64–70; STC stays in with Hartley, 93; STC’s isolation and loneliness in, 119, 134, 137, 255; STC’s social life in, 222–7; STC returns to from Lakes (1812), 297; STC’s 1816 return to from Calne, 423; see also individual places and streets

  London Institution, 70

  London Magazine, 518, 523

  Longman (publishers): publishes Wordsworth’s Poems in Two Volumes, 87; STC contracts with for two-volume edition of poems, 94, 109; and negotiations over Wordsworth’s “White Doe”, 123, 125, 133, 138; STC and Wordsworth dine with, 123; and publication of The Friend, 144, 158; STC offers copyright on poems to, 160–1, 241; STC fails to deliver prom
ised MS to, 242

  Lonsdale, William Lowther, 1st Earl of, 306

  love: STC’s thoughts on, 177, 196, 231–3, 274, 316–17, 495 & n; Wordsworth and, 232–3, 306–7

  Lovelock, James, 36n

  Luddite riots (1811–12), 242, 307

  Luther, Martin, 43, 167–9, 178, 205, 226, 493

  Lyell, Sir Charles, 559

  Lyrical Ballads, 130, 209, 274, 383–4, 388–9, 414

  Maass, Johann Gebhard Ehrenreich, 280n, 401; Einbildungskraft, 394n

  Macauley (Public Secretary of Malta), 33

  Mackintosh, Sir James, 97, 310, 467

  MacNeice, Louis, 367n

  Magee, Brian, 411n

  Maidstone, HMS, 11–12, 14

  Maldon, Essex, 478–80

  Malta: STC visits on Mediterranean voyage, 1; strategic importance, 8; and loss of Hindoostan (ship), 9; STC plans to meet Adye in, 10; noise in, 16, 45; STC stays and works in, 16–20, 29, 32–5, 38–43, 45–7; STC’s notebooks in, 18, 32; earthquake, 45; STC leaves, 49–50; STC’s memories of, 180; STC writes on in The Friend, 190

  Malta Gazette (sometime Argus), 19, 46, 49, 158

  Mandeville, Bernard: The Fable of the Bees, 540n

  Manning, Thomas, 119

  Marble Hill House, Twickenham, 460

  Marcus Aurelius, 3, 7

  Margate, Kent, 64–5, 141

  Marsh, James, 548

  Martineau, Harriet, 487n

  Mathews, Charles, 487n, 510

  Maurice, Frederick Denison, 484, 492n

  May family, 245, 247–8

  May, Mrs (Bath inn landlady), 350

  Medici, Cosimo de’, 493

  Mediterranean: STC’s visit to, 1–16, 31–3, 38, 50, 71; British naval strategy in, 18; STC plans book on travels in, 109; STC writes on British role in, 190; see also Malta

  Merton College, Oxford, 514

  metaphysics: STC’s passion for, 73, 108, 128–9, 248, 268, 408–9

  Method: STC’s essay on, 481–3

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, 56, 61

  Mill, John Stuart, 281n, 484, 487n, 525, 538, 549; On Bentham and Coleridge, 462n, 484n

  Milton, John, 107, 127, 247, 265, 269, 286, 354, 389, 467

  Mitford, George, 231

  Mitford, Mary Russell, 231, 267

  Money, Rev. William, 416–17

  Monkhouse, John: and launching of The Friend, 151; and Asra’s leaving Allan Bank, 191, 193; Wordsworth visits, 200, 202; STC believes Asra plans to marry, 202; STC writes to, 215; and STC’s quarrel with Wordsworth, 292; Wordsworth meets STC at home of, 463–4; literary dinner party, 536

  Monkhouse, Mary, 177, 244

  Montagu family, 93

  Montagu, Basil: attends STC lecture, 130; friendship with STC, 133; STC writes to about The Friend, 151; invites then refuses STC, 211–14, 233, 260; and Wordsworth’s confrontation with STC, 300–4; supports fund for STC’s children, 359; takes in Hartley after dismissal from Oriel, 513, 518; expels Hartley, 519; visits STC in Highgate, 551

  Montagu, Mrs Basil, 211, 213–15, 513, 519, 551

  Montaigne, Michel de, 229n

  Montgomery, James, 161

  Monthly Mirror, 227

  Monthly Review, 454

  Moore & James (London apothecaries), 423

  Moore, General Sir John, 245–6

  Moore, Thomas: Byron requests to praise STC, 415; attacks “Christabel”, 438–9; at Monkhouse’s dinner party, 536

  More, Hannah: Percy, 321

  More, Sir Thomas, 33

  Moreton House see Highgate

  Morgan family: STC stays with, 111, 113, 338; STC’s poem to, 114–15; letters from STC, 119; STC leaves home, 256; reconciliation with and hospitality to STC, 257, 259–60, 262–4; and STC’s behaviour, 259–60, 262; and STC’s opium addiction, 263; move to Berners Street, 288, 297; and STC’s visit to Lakes, 289, 291; and STC’s children, 294; and STC’s 1812 return from Lakes, 297; Wordsworth visits, 312–13; attend STC’s Surrey Institution lectures, 318; and STC’s reaction to death of Tom Wordsworth, 333; attend opening of STC’s Remorse, 335; STC’s financial aid for, 342–3, 345–8; STC visits at Ashley, 360; STC sends delicacies to, 363; STC retreats to at Ashley, 365, 367–73; move to Calne with STC, 373–5; invite Hartley to Calne, 385–6; give support to STC, 413; accompany STC to London (1816), 424; STC greets from Highgate, 464; invited to STC’s 1818 lectures, 465; STC’s bad dreams of, 501

  Morgan, John: STC stays with, 111–12; invites STC to revisit, 120, 197; STC corresponds with, 143; optimism over The Friend, 152; subscribes to The Friend, 161; on obscurity of The Friend, 171–2; takes in STC at Hammersmith, 220, 221–2, 229–30, 236, 241, 244; reconciliation with STC, 259–60; character, 260; letters, 263; as STC’s amanuensis, 264, 372, 378, 383, 391–3, 404, 406, 408, 429, 440; and STC’s Shakespeare lectures, 265–7, 270; letter from STC in Lakes, 296; STC requests Sara send money to, 297; Wordsworth praises, 312; financial difficulties and flight to Ireland, 341–3, 345–6; illness, 341; returns from Ireland, 354; STC confesses opium addiction to, 356, 358; STC stays with at Ashley, 365; witnesses Catholic persecutions in Ireland, 370; interest in theatricals, 386; and publication of Biographia Literaria, 404–5; and STC’s relapse, 417; and STC’s stay with Gillman, 429; and STC’s withdrawal symptoms, 430; and STC’s retreat to Highgate, 433; second bankruptcy and stroke (1819), 501; in STC’s dream, 501; decline and death, 502

  Morgan, Mary (née Brent): marriage, 111; STC stays with, 111, 221, 244, 263; STC’s romantic attachment to Charlotte Brent and, 112, 120–1, 221, 259–60, 314, 347, 351, 360; and STC’s marriage difficulties, 119; in STC’s Notebooks, 220; character and appearance, 260, 312–13; letters lost, 263; and husband’s illness, 341; moves after husband’s business failure, 342; STC’s financial aid for, 345–8, 502; travels to West Country with STC, 348–51; and STC’s behaviour under opium influence, 356–7; at Ashley, 365; on Hartley, 385; organizes STC’s study room, 387; on STC’s writing of Biographia Literaria, 391–2; and STC’s unruly behaviour, 416–17; reproaches STC for opium episode, 501; in STC’s dream, 501; and John’s decline and death, 502

  Morning Chronicle, 265, 310, 319, 328, 466

  Morning Herald, 336

  Morning Post, 173, 182

  Mudeford, Hampshire, 443–4

  Mudford, William, 466, 476

  Murray, John (publisher): and reduced audiences for STC’s lectures, 310–11; STC offers miscellaneous anthology to, 313; Southey asks to review Remorse, 338; STC proposes translating Goethe’s Faust to, 365–7, 376, 413; and Byron, 377, 434, 457; publishes STC, 426, 429, 431, 434, 437–9; payments to Southey, 437; and reviewers’ attacks on STC, 438–9; payments to STC, 446; STC alienated from, 446; STC seeks negotiations with, 507; STC offers Leighton book (Aids to Reflection) to, 525, 538; publishes STC’s daughter Sara, 534

  Musset, Alfred de, 101, 323n

  Naples, 26–7, 50–1

  Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of France: in Italy, 56, 59; evacuates Spanish Peninsula, 155; STC attacks regime, 166; STC’s essay on, 182; campaign in Spain, 184; Ball and, 186; advances and successes, 190; war with, 238; STC attacks and satirizes in Courier articles, 239; Hazlitt defends, 240; STC promises article on, 256–7; German reaction to, 277–8; invades Russia, 288; abdicates to Elba, 360, 362; escape from Elba and Waterloo defeat, 363, 386

  Nature: Schelling on, 352; STC exalts, 494

  negative belief: STC’s idea of, 130

  Nelson, Admiral Horatio, 1st Viscount: activities in Mediterranean, 2, 5, 8–9, 18; actions off Azores, 39, 41; death at Trafalgar, 50–1, 186, 192; STC writes on, 164; and Ball, 188–9; STC talks to nephews about, 247

  Nerval, Gerard de, 114n, 367n

  Nether Stowey, Somerset, 95–7, 103–5, 109, 379, 452

  New Times, 466

  Newman, John Henry, Cardinal, 514; An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, 205n

 

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