The 'sad habits' of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Unpublished letters from Joseph Cottle to Robert Southey, 1813-1817

Review of English Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 218, 2004, Pages 75-90

  Pratt, Lynda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61449321878     PISSN: 00346551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/res/55.218.75     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. J. Cottle, Early Recollections; chiefly relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, during his long residence in Bristol, 2 vols. (London, 1837)
2. id., Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (London, 1847)
3. Quarterly Review, 59 (July-Oct. 1837), 25
4. Cottle also continued to correspond with Wordsworth: see J. A. Butler, 'Wordsworth, Cottle, and the Lyrical Ballads: Five Letters, 1797-1800', JEGP 77 (1976), 139-53
5. and G. Lamoine, 'Letters from Joseph Cottle to William Wordsworth: 1828-1850', Ariel, 3 (1972), 84-102
6. Reminiscences, 5
7. For this period of Coleridge's life, see R. Ashton, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Oxford, 1996), 285-8
8. R. Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections (London, 1998), 348-60
9. Lectures 1808-1819, ii. 5
10. Early Recollections, ii. 140, 143
11. The Works of Thomas Challerlon, ed. R. Southey and J. Cottle, 3 vols (London, 1803)
12. Edward Long Fox (1760-1834) was a Quaker physician based in Bristol and later proprietor of a private asylum at Clevehill, Gloucestershire. For details of this abortive plan, see Coleridge, Collected Letters, iii. 477, 479
13. R. Southey, The Remains of Henry Kirke White, with an account of his life, 2 vols. (London, 1807)
14. Nov Letters, ii. 116-17
15. J. Cottle, Messiah: a poem in twenty-eight books (London, 1815)
16. See also R. Southey, A Letter to William Smith, Esq. M.P. (London, 1817)
17. Samuel Romilly (1757-1818) was a barrister and Whig MP (1806-7, 1808-17)
18. R. Southey, The History of Brazil, 3 pts. (London, 1810-19)