Review of Coleridge's ‘The Friend’ (in Periodical Form)

VII (Oct. 1811), 912–31. The author was the essayist John Foster. Authority for the attribution is the list of Foster’s contributions in J. E. Ryland. The Life and Correspondence of John Foster (London, 1846), II, 580–86. The review is reprinted in John Foster, Contributions, Bio-graphical, Literary, and Philosophical to the Eclectic Review (London, 1844). Page numbers of omitted passages refer to Volume II of B. E. Rooke’s edition of The Friend (Princeton, N.J., and London, 1969).