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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 Caesar
  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
  Epicene
  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 AEschylus

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.

Fenelon 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,