Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Critical Heritage - Volume 2 - 1834-1900

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Critical Heritage assembles contemporary and near-contemporary criticism to show how critical attitudes formed around Coleridge’s work and how his reputation shifted after his death. Volume 2 covers the reception from 1834 to 1900, drawing on carefully selected essays, fragments of opinion, and documentary materials such as letters and diaries. The edition is organized with an introduction, chronology, and a detailed contents structure that maps criticism by year and publication venue.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

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Pages336

Reading Time8 h 37 min

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Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

Introduction

Chronology

Table Talk (1835)

John Herman Merivale in Edinburgh Review (1835)

Francis Jeffrey in Edinburgh Review (1835)

General Estimates (1836–42)

D in London and Westminster Review (1836)

Unsigned review in Eclectic Review (1837)

John Stuart Mill in London and Westminster Review (1840)

Frederick Denison Maurice in The Kingdom of Christ; or, Hints to a Quaker (1842)

Theory of Life (1848)

John Abraham Heraud in Athenaeum (1849)

General Estimates (1864–89)

Matthew Arnold from Joubert; or, a French Coleridge (1864)

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Prefatory Essay to his edition of Christabel (1875)

John Tulloch in Fortnightly Review (1885)

Edward Dowden in Fortnightly Review (1889)

Poetical Works (1893)

Unsigned review in Athenaeum (1893)

Letters (1895)

Unsigned review in Atlantic Monthly (1895)

Supplement to Volume 1

Poems on Various Subjects (1796)

Ode on the Departing Year (1796)

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE VOLUME 2, 1834–1900 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 writer’s 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 writer’s death. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE VOLUME 2, 1834–1900 THE CRITICAL HERITAGE Edited by J.R.DE J.JACKSON London and New York First Published in 1969 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P4EE & 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. Compilation, introduction, notes and index © 1969 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 0-415-13443-9 (Print Edition) ISBN 0-203-19879-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-19882-4 (Glassbook Format) General Editor’s Preface The reception given to a writer by his contemporaries and nearcontemporaries 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 writer’s 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 writer’s 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 author’s 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 Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS x NOTE ON THE TEXT xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHRONOLOGY 24 TABLE TALK (1835) 1 JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE in Edinburgh Review 1835 27 2 FRANCIS JEFFREY in Edinburgh Review 1835 55 GENERAL ESTIMATES (1836–42) 3 ‘D’ in London and Westminster Review 1836 63 4 From an unsigned review in Eclectic Review 1837 65 5 JOHN STUART MILL in London and Westminster Review 66 1840 6 FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE in The Kingdom of Christ; 118 or, Hints to a Quaker 1842

FAQs

What does The Critical Heritage series focus on for each volume?

It collects criticism on major literary figures, presenting contemporary responses that help trace the formation of critical attitudes and the writer’s place within a literary tradition.

What years does Volume 2 of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Critical Heritage cover?

Volume 2 covers the critical reception from 1834 through 1900, as indicated in its title information and the organized contents by date.

What kinds of sources are included in these volumes?

Sources range from landmark criticism essays to fragments of contemporary opinion, along with documentary material such as letters and diaries, and later pieces showing changes in reputation after the writer’s death.

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