BIB_ID
415862
Accession number
MA 1854.5
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Calne, England, 1815 July 29.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 18.8 x 11.7 cm
Notes
Dr. Brabant was an English physician in Devizes who also had an interest in German Higher Criticism. Coleridge was a patient of Dr. Brabant during the years he lived in Calne.
This collection, MA 1854, is comprised of ten autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to R.H. Brabant, written from March 10, 1815 through December 5, 1816. It also includes 4 pages of autograph notes and one fragment of an autograph letter signed to Brabant. The fragment is written from Calne but is undated.
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Address panel to "R. Brabant, Esq're / Devizes."
This collection, MA 1854, is comprised of ten autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to R.H. Brabant, written from March 10, 1815 through December 5, 1816. It also includes 4 pages of autograph notes and one fragment of an autograph letter signed to Brabant. The fragment is written from Calne but is undated.
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Address panel to "R. Brabant, Esq're / Devizes."
Provenance
Purchased from Joanna Langlais in 1957 as a gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, Mr. Homer D. Crotty, Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, Mr. Robert H. Taylor and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne. Formerly in the possession of Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, Baron Latymer.
Summary
Concerning the Preface to his Autobiographia Literaria; saying "The necessity of extending, what I first intended as a preface, to an Autobiographia literaria, or Sketches of my literary Life & opinions, as far as poetry and poetical Criticism is concerned, has confined me to my Study from 11 to 4, and from 6 to 10, since I last left you. - I have just finished it, having only the correction of the Mss. to go thro'.- I have given a full account (raisonné) of the Controversy concerning Wordsworth's Poems & Theory, in which my name has been so constantly included - I have no doubt, that Wordsworth will be displeased - but I have done my Duty to myself and to the Public, in (as I believe) compleatly subverting the Theory & in proving that the Poet himself has never acted on it except in particular Stanzas which are the Blots of his Compositions. - One long passage - a disquisition on the powers of association, with the History of the Opinions on this subject from Aristotle to Hartley, and on the generic difference between the faculties of Fancy and Imagination - I did not indeed altogether insert, but I certainly extended and elaborated, with a view to your perusal - as laying the foundation Stones of the Constructive or Dynamic Philosophy in opposition to the merely mechanic-. But I am running on as usual and shall not leave space enough for the purpose of this note if I do not, like a Skaiter, strike a Stop with my Heel;" asking if Mrs. Brabant could purchase for him a pair of black silk stockings as he has been invited to have dinner with the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne; adding that he is hoping to spend two or three days with them when they are able to find a time convenient for his visit.
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