one infinite substance, of which all finite existences are modes or limitations."

When he saw. Cf. Coleridge's "Remorse," iv, 2, 100:

"When we saw nought but beauty; when we heard

The voice of that Almighty One who loved us

In every gale that breathed, and wave that murmur'd!" Proclus (410-485) and Plotinus (204-270), philosophers of the Neo-Platonic school In Biographia Literaria" (chap. 9) Coleridge refers to his "early study of Plato and of Plotinus, with the commentaries and the Theologia Platonica' of the illustrious Florentine; of Proclus, and Gemistius Pletho."

Duns Scotus (1205 or 1275-1308) and Thomas Aquinas (12271274), two great theologians of the Catholic Church.

Jacob Behmen or Böhme (1575-1624), a German religious mystic who exerted considerable influence on English religious thought in the eighteenth century. In the "Biographia Literaria" (chap. 9) Coleridge writes: "A meek and shy quietist, his intellectual powers were never stimulated into feverous energy by crowds of proselytes, or by the ambition of proselyting. Jacob Behmen was an enthusiast in the strictest sense, as not merely distinguished, but as contradistinguished from a fanatic. . . . The writings of these Mystics acted in no slight degree to prevent my mind from being imprisoned within the outline of any single dogmatic system."

Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1772), the Swedish scientist and mystic from whom have sprung some of the modern theosophical cults.

Religious Musings, published in his "Poems on Various Subjects" (1796).

the glad prose of Jeremy Taylor. Cf. "Literature of the Age of Elizabeth," Lecture VII: "In his writings, the frail stalk of human life reclines on the bosom of eternity. His Holy Living and Dying is a divine pastoral. He writes to the faithful followers of Christ, as the shepherd pipes to his flock. He introduces touching and heartfelt appeals to familiar life; condescends to men of low estate; and his pious page blushes with modesty and beauty. His style is prismatic. It unfolds the colours of the rainbow; it floats like the bubble through the air; it is like innumerable dew-drops that glitter on the face of morning, and tremble as they glitter. He does not dig his way underground, but slides upon ice, borne on the winged car of fancy. The dancing light he throws upon objects is like an Aurora Borealis, playing betwixt heaven

and earth. . . . In a word, his writings are more like fine poetry than any other prose whatever; they are a choral song in praise of virtue, and a hymn to the Spirit of the Universe."

Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850), published "Fourteen Sonnets " in 1789, and a second edition containing twenty-one in the same year. In the first chapter of the "Biographia Literaria," Coleridge credits the sonnets of Bowles with saving him from a premature absorption in metaphysics and theology and with introducing him to the excellences of the new school of poetry. In his enthusiasm he went about making proselytes for Bowles and as my school. finances did not permit me to purchase copies, I made, within less than a year and a half, more than forty transcriptions, as the best presents I could offer to those, who had in any way won my regard. And with almost equal delight did I receive the three or four following publications of the same author." Coleridge also addressed a "Sonnet to Bowles," opening

"My heart hath thanked thee, Bowles! for those soft strains, That on the still air floating tremblingly,

Wak'd in me Fancy, Love, and Sympathy!"

P. 212. John Bull. Croker's John Bull was a scurrilous newspaper edited by Theodore Hook, the first number of which appeared December 17, 1820.

Mr. Croker, John Wilson (1780-1857), politician and man of letters, one of Hazlitt's pet aversions, and the same who comes in for such a severe chastisement in Macaulay's review of his edition of Boswell's "Johnson."

Junius, the mysterious author of a famous series of political letters which appeared in the London Public Advertiser from January 21, 1769, to January 21, 1772, collected as the "Letters of Junius" in 1772. The name of Sir Philip Francis is the one most persistently associated with the composition of these letters.

Godwin, William (1756-1836), leader of the philosophical radicals in England and a believer in the perfectibility of man, wrote "An Enquiry concerning Political Justice" (1793), “Caleb Williams" (1794), and other novels and miscellaneous works. Godwin was the husband of Mary Wolstonecraft, and the father-in-law of Shelley. Hazlitt wrote a sketch of him in the "Spirit of the Age" and reviewed his last novel, "Cloudesley," in the Edinburgh Review. Coleridge has a Sonnet to William Godwin:

"Nor will I not thy holy guidance bless,

And hymn thee, Godwin! with an ardent lay;

For that by voice. n Passions stormy day
When and I am i te has Heath of Distress.
Bade bent term of Justice meet my way-
And cd me that her name was Eareness."

Sormones in Verre a sentimentai nove of Scethe the work by which he was most generally own to Engush readers in Hazlitt s

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spoke with mature of Karter. Cienuge had visitet Italy in See on ns return from a stay in Maita, and had tested his time there to a study of Italian art. See p. 28 1.

L 1337, Gandato, whese real name was Domenico Bigartig må ISSUCTIO Los-ig were early Forentine gamers.

nto Germany Coleridges visit to Germany and his introduction to the leading German piticsophers dates back t 1708-4

Kunteun paiosoniy, Immanuel Kant 84 was the leader of modern pinicsepar The wrongs of the ustricus sage of Königsberg, the Sounder of the Conical Philosophy, more than any other werk, at once migrated and disciplined my understanding. The orgmality the depth, and the compression of the thoughts. the nevety and stotiety, yet scivity and importance of the distinctions; the adamantne chain of the bee; and I vi venture to add paradox as it will appear those who have taken their notion of Immanuel Kant from Reviewers and Frenchmen —the clearness and evidence, of the Critique of Pure Reason: and Croque of the Judgment: of the Metaphysical Elements of Natural Philosophy; and of his Region within the beands of Pure Reason, took possession of me as with a giant's hind. After fifteen years' familiarity with them. I still read these and all his other productices with undiminished delight and increasing admiration "Biographia Literana" chap. IX

Fichte. J. Gottlieb (1762-1814). "Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre. or Lore of Ultimate Science, was to add the key-store of the arch of Kant's system. Ibid

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph (1773-1829). In Schelling's Natur-Philosophie, and the System des Transcendentalon Idealismus, I first found a genial coincidence with much that I had toiled out for myself, and a powerful assistance in what I had yet

to do. . . . Many of the most striking resemblances, indeed all the main and fundamental ideas, were born and matured in my mind before I had ever seen a single page of the German Philosopher; and I might indeed affirm with truth, before the most important works of Schelling had been written, or at least made public. Nor is this coincidence at all to be wondered at. We had studied in the same school; been disciplined by the same preparatory philosophy, namely, the writings of Kant; we had both equal obligations to the polar logic and dynamic philosophy of Giordano Bruno; and Schelling has lately, and, as of recent acquisition, avowed that same affectionate reverence for the labors of Behmen, and other mystics, which I had formed at a much earlier period." Ibid.

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781), German dramatist and critic.

sang for joy. Coleridge had in 1789 composed some stanzas "On the Destruction of the Bastille," but these were not published till 1834

would have floated his bark. Coleridge and Southey with some other friends had in 1794 formed a plan for an ideal colony, the Pantisocracy, on the banks of the Susquehanna.

In Philharmonia's. Cf. Coleridge's "Monody on the Death of Chatterton," 140: “O'er peaceful Freedom's undivided dale."

P. 213. Frailty. Cf. "Hamlet," i, 2, 146: “thy name is woman." writing paragraphs. Coleridge was connected with the staff of the Courier as a sort of assistant-editor for five months in 1811. His contributions during this period appeared as the "Essays on His Own Times" in 1850.

poet-laureate and stamp-distributor are references respectively to Southey and Wordsworth.

bourne from whence. "Hamlet,” iii, 1, 79. tantalized by useless resources.

Compare this with Coleridge's own lines of bitter self-reproach addressed "To a Gentleman": "Sense of past youth, and manhood come in vain, And genius given, and knowledge won in vain."

P. 214 one splendid passage. The lines beginning “Alas! they had been friends in youth" (408-426). The same passage had been singled out for praise by Hazlitt in his lecture “On the Living Poets" and in the review of "Christabel" which had appeared in the Examiner of June 2, 1816. The authorship of this review has been disputed but should on internal evidence, despite its failure in appreciation, be ascribed to Hazlitt. See Works, XI, 580-582.

anstation of Semiller & Valenstern, made by Coleridge in 1700

Aenerse Tins tragedy was played at the Drury Lane Theatre with considerable popular success n :813. It was a recast of ai early play entitled “Csone," composed in 1707

P. 25. Die Friend; a iterary, moral, and political weekly paper. excluding personal and party politics and the events of the day :800-810', was reissued in one volume in 1812, and with additions and alterations rather a facimento than a new edition in 1818.

The sketch in the Sturt of the Age concludes with a contrast between Colerage and William Godwin...

MR. SOUTHEY

This selection torms the conclusion of a sketch of Southey in the Smart of the Age' t ilustrates, even more strikingly than the "Character of Burke. Hazlitt power of dissoctaung ins udgments from us prentices, inasmuch as there had been exchanges of rancorous personalities between the two men.

P 10 Like he non cares. Soutness The Hoily Tree' or my voet. In an essay in the Plain Speaker" "On the Prose Style of Poets, Hachitt eaborates his theory that poets turned out interior prose. “I have out an mdifferent opinion of the prose-style it poets not that is not sometimes good, gay, excellent, but it is never the better, and generally the worse imm the habit of weting verse."

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P 219 Pudure je Šiandean Le, whimsical. Pindare should of course be understood as a reference to Peter Pindar, the name ander which John West Virginia wrote his coarse and whimsical satires. Haslit mentens him at the end of his lectures "On the Comic Writers The bard in whom the nanon and the king delighted, is cut and blind, but sell merry and wise-remem bering how he has made the world laugh in his time, and act re