Literary Remains, vol 2

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Title: Literary Remains, Vol. 2
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THE LITERARY REMAINS
OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE, ESQ. M.A.
VOLUME THE SECOND

CONTENTS
VOL. II.

LITERARY REMAINS.

Extract from a Letter written by Mr. Coleridge, in February, 1818, to a Gentleman who attended the Course of Lectures given in the Spring of that Year.
Extract from a Letter to J. Britton, Esq.
SHAKSPEARE, WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER ON POETRY, THE DRAMA, AND THE STAGE Definition of Poetry Greek Drama Progress of the Drama The Drama generally, and Public Taste Shakspeare, a Poet generally Shakspeare's Judgment equal to his Genius Recapitulation, and Summary of the Characteristics of Shakspeare's Dramas Order of Shakspeare's Plays Notes on the Tempest Love's Labour's Lost Midsummer Night's Dream Comedy of Errors As You Like It Twelfth Night All's Well that Ends Well Merry Wives of Windsor Measure for Measure Cymbeline Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Coriolanus Julius C?sar Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Romeo and Juliet Shakspeare's English Historical Plays King John Richard II. Henry IV.
Part I.
Henry IV.
Part II.
Henry V. Henry VI.
Part I.
Richard III. Lear Hamlet Notes on Macbeth Notes on the Winter's Tale Notes on Othello
NOTES ON BEN JONSON Whalley's Preface Whalley's Life of Jonson Every Man out of His Humour Poetaster Fall of Sejanus Volpone Epicène The Alchemist Catiline's Conspiracy Bartholomew Fair The Devil is an Ass The Staple of News The New Inn
NOTES ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER Harris's Commendatory Poem on Fletcher Life of Fletcher in Stockdale's Edition. 1811 Maid's Tragedy A King and no King The Scornful Lady The Custom of the Country The Elder Brother The Spanish Curate Wit Without Money The Humorous Lieutenant The Mad Lover The Loyal Subject Rule a Wife and have a Wife The Laws of Candy The Little French Lawyer Valentinian Rollo The Wildgoose Chase A Wife for a Month The Pilgrim The Queen of Corinth The Noble Gentleman The Coronation Wit at Several Weapons The Fair Maid of the Inn The Two Noble Kinsmen The Woman Hater
On the 'Prometheus' of ?schylus
Note on Chalmers's 'Life of Daniel'
Bishop Corbet Notes on Selden's 'Table Talk'
Note on Theological Lectures of Benjamin Wheeler, D.D.
Note on a Sermon on the Prevalence of Infidelity and Enthusiasm, by Walter Birch, B. D.
Fénélon on Charity
Change of the Climates
Wonderfulness of Prose
Notes on Tom Jones
Jonathan Wild
Barry Cornwall
The Primitive Christian's Address to the Cross
Fuller's Holy State
Fuller's Profane State
Fuller's Appeal of Injured Innocence
Fuller's Church History
Asgill's Argument
Introduction to Asgill's Defence upon his Expulsion from the House of Commons.
Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's 'Religio Medici'
Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Garden of Cyrus
Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors

LITERARY REMAINS

Extract from a Letter written by Mr. Coleridge, in February, 1818, to a gentleman who attended the course of Lectures given in the spring of that year.
See the 'Canterbury Magazine', September, 1834. Ed.
My next Friday's lecture will, if I do not grossly flatter-blind myself, be interesting, and the points of view not only original, but new to the audience. I make this distinction, because sixteen or rather seventeen years ago, I delivered eighteen lectures on Shakspeare, at the Royal Institution; three-fourths of which appeared at that time startling paradoxes, although they have since been adopted even by men, who then made use of them as proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind; all tending to prove that Shakspeare's judgment was, if possible, still more wonderful than his genius; or rather, that the contradistinction itself between judgment and genius rested on an utterly false theory. This, and its proofs and grounds have been--I should not have said adopted, but produced as their own legitimate children by some, and by others the merit