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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849‘I dined yesterday at Rydal Mount ... Poor Mr. Wordsworth is all but blind. He bears his affliction with wonderful cheerfulness. I read to him my own Life of Roger Asch...Hartley Coleridge Hartley ColeridgeBiographia Borealis; or Lives of Distinguished Nor...Print: Book
1800-1849‘And what do you think of the "Doctor"? And what do you think of [John Gibson] Lockhart’s wise conjecture, that I - even I - Hartley Coleridge, assisted by my father, a...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe DoctorPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Talking of this, my Sara, what d’ye think / (To ask the question is but waste of Ink) / Of Harriet Martineau’s political novels? / Fine food, forsooth, for starving pa...Hartley Coleridge Harriet Martineau[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849‘I am quite delighted with the sweet little one’s [Sara Coleridge’s] sweet little book. It is such an image of the tiny self - not perhaps as married life, and alas, si...Hartley Coleridge Sara ColeridgePretty Lessons in Verse for Good ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849‘... The ancient fables attributed to Aesop, Phaedrus, Pilpay, Avienus etc., are emblems or...allegories rather than Fables, most probably suggested by the Zoographic H...Hartley Coleridge AesopFablesPrint: Book
1800-1849‘...Other tales, in which beasts and birds compose the Dramatis Personae, are to be considered as burlesque satires, intended to make human actions and passions ridicul...Hartley Coleridge Catherine Ann Turner DorsetThe Peacock ‘at Home’: A sequel to the Butterfly's...Print: Book
1800-1849‘I dined yesterday at Rydal [Mount] ... I read ‘Yarrow Revis[ited]’ - and some of the new Poems - very sweet, but can’t talk about them here, for I’ve more to say than ...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I hope Mr. Wordsworth feels some consolation in the complete victory of his poetic fame. He may at least feel assured, that no Great Poet ever lived to see his name of...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘Mr. Parry has not yet received the Number of the Quarterly containing the Review of my book - but I got a sight of it the other day at Mrs. [Louise] Claude’s. I am, of...Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge[Review of Hartley Coleridge's Lives of Distinguis...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘As to the Thucydides, I cannot think it exactly the book for me - considering how little access I have at present to classical books, and how little I know of those cr...Hartley Coleridge Thucydides[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849‘Here, Hal, you see the influence you possess as a Tremensian; no one, not even Bingley, would have thought [of?] continuing the work had it not been for your panegyric...Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge[Review of Hartley Coleridge's Lives of Distinguis...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘...But I cannot agree with Mitford that the pronunciation of the Modern Greeks is even a clue to that of the ancient occupants of the same country. ...’Hartley Coleridge William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849‘...what makes you think that I dislike your ‘Table-Talk’?...I might tell Derwent [Coleridge], that the book gave me no feeling of my father’s manner, which it does not...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSpecimens of the Table-Talk of S. T. ColeridgePrint: Book
1800-1849‘Mr. Wordsworth looks older but keeps up his spirits wonderfully; his character, like his poetry, is much softened by age. I know not how Derwent [Coleridge] can think ...Hartley Coleridge William WordsworthYarrow Revisited, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘...I did not and do not, admire any of his [Robert Southey’s] laureate poetry - (except the epicedian on the Princess, which is beautiful) nor agree with all his Artic...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyFuneral Ode on the Death of the Princess CharlottePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘...I shall give my own poetical translation, also, of the scenes which Schiller in his translation of Macbeth has substituted for the original witch-scenes. He has alt...Hartley Coleridge William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘Owen Lloyd has lent me an essay on Faith by my Father transcribed by poor Charles Lloyd. It will probably make a good addition to your forthcoming volumes. I will tran...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEssay on FaithManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849‘I have been reading Von Raumer’s England. He speaks highly of the Table talk and of my father, though some of the sentiments are at variance with his own.’Hartley Coleridge Friedrich von RaumerEngland in 1835: Being a Series of Letters Written...Print: Book
1800-1849‘I have read [Henry] Taylor’s Philip Van Artevelde. It is admirable.’Hartley Coleridge Henry TaylorPhilip van ArteveldePrint: Book
1800-1849‘Talking of Doctors, there is another volume of the Doctor forthcoming. What a wonderful energy of intellect, that can produce such a work under such circumstances. And...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyThe DoctorPrint: Book


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