ABSTRACT

1820s

Extracts (a) from a letter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Thomas Allsop, 8 April 1820, and (b) January 1821, and from (c) marginalia written by Coleridge between 1823 and his death in 1834. The letters are taken from Thomas Allsop, Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S.T.Coleridge, 3rd ed. (London, 1864), 25–29, 79, and the marginalia from T.M.Raysor, ed., Coleridge’s Miscellaneous Criticism (London, 1936), 328, 329, 331, 335.