LECTURES AND NOTES ON SHAKSPERE AND OTHER ENGLISH POETS. BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. NOW FIRST COLLECTED, BY THE LATE T. ASHE, B.A., OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, Author of "Songs Now and Then," STANFORD LIBRARI LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN, NEW YORK: 112, FOURTH AVENUE. 1893. PREFACE. ALL the extant criticism of Coleridge on the English Dramatists is collected, for the first time, in this volume, and numerous criticisms of his, on other English Poets, have in it been rescued from obscurity, in the form of notes or otherwise. Our thanks are especially due to Mr. Collier, for allowing us to reprint his transcripts; to Messrs. Macmillan, for the privilege, willingly accorded, of making free use of Crabb Robinson's Diary; and to Mr. George, of Bristol, without whose friendly and invaluable co-operation we should not have recovered the reports of the Bristol Lectures. Sept., 1883. Mr. Collier has passed beyond reach of our thanks, in his ninetyfifth year. (Sept. 18, 1883). |