“passing from subject to subject”, “a thousand things”. Cornwell (Notebook 149/196-197)
“passing from subject to subject”, “a thousand things”. Cornwell (Notebook 149/196-197)
“superabundance of words”. Cornwell (Notebook 149/197)
“superabundance of words”. Cornwell (Notebook 149/197)
Carlyle’s chapter ridiculing STC’s talk: “hazy infinitude of Kantean transcendentalism”. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A7AYEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA367
Carlyle’s chapter ridiculing STC’s talk: “hazy infinitude of Kantean transcendentalism”. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A7AYEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA367
S. T. Coleridge the talker
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It has been claimed that “Coleridge the talker is the essential Coleridge, of whom Coleridge the writer of prose, Coleridge the poet and Coleridge the lecturer are somewhat distorted reflections”, and that, like Dr Johnson, he was “a man greater than his published works, who…found oral discourse the only completely satisfactory medium for self-expression.” The evidence for his greatness in this field comes from those contemporaries, more than a hundred in number, who left written testimony of it,[1] evaluating him as the greatest talker of his time.[2] Those who came to hear him, from many walks of life and from both his own country and abroad, included Thomas Carlyle, Thomas De Quincey, Joseph Farington, William Hazlitt, Sir Henry Holland, Edward Irving, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Charles Robert Leslie, Stephen Rigaud, Henry Crabb Robinson, Samuel Rogers, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Talfourd, Henry Taylor, William Wordsworth, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ludwig Tieck, Philarète Chasles, and Gioacchino Prati.[3][4][5][6][7][8] As a young and impecunious man he is said, though not on the best authority, to have been offered free lodging by an innkeeper because of the great numbers of customers who were attracted to the inn by his talk.[9][10] Many years later, ageing and ailing, he was such an object of pilgrimage that Dr James Gillman, in whose care he lived, had to restrict visits to Thursday afternoons and evenings.[11]
His accent was described as being “broad Devonshire”, at least by the standards of the gentry of his day,[12] and his voice was somewhat adenoidal.[13] He talked “very much like an angel” according to one witness, while another wrote that “in company, his vehemence of manner and wonderful flow of words and ideas, drew all eyes towards him, and gave him pre-eminence.” The dramatist Henry Taylor wrote after meeting Coleridge that “I never knew such a scope of mind exhibited in any man – such largeness of views, together with such subtlety of insight, and a vivid imagination flashing through all”; many years later he recalled that “I could not sleep at nights after hearing him talk.”[14] Coleridge himself, however, agreed with the judgement of others that his powers were those of a monologuist rather than a conversationalist.[15]
“passing from subject to subject”, “a thousand things”. Cornwell (Notebook 149/196-197)
“superabundance of words”. Cornwell (Notebook 149/197). Scott: “I was never so bethumped with words”. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AF4OEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA381
Carlyle’s chapter ridiculing STC’s talk: “hazy infinitude of Kantean transcendentalism”. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A7AYEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA367
Armour (Notebook 149-150/vii-viii, 78)
Woodring (Notebook 150/xl, l-li)
Holmes pp. 100, 223-225, 248, 470-471, 497
H. N. Coleridge the editor
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Woodring (Notebook 150/xxxvii, lxxxiv, xciii, xcvii-xcviii, 5)
Woodring (Notebook 153/cxix-cxxiii)
Holmes p. 533
Woodring (Notebook 153/499)
Woodring (Notebook 151-153/ci-cix)
Jackson (Notebook 154/5)
Later publication history
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Woodring (Notebook 151/c)
Woodring (Notebook 153/xcix, 499-503)
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