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After Keats had met Coleridge in 1819 and listened to his conversation for an hour he wrote, ‘I heard his voice as he came towards me—I heard it as he moved away—I had heard it all the interval—if it may be called so.’1x
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6 Coleridge’s Elusive Presence among the Victorians
Julius Hare, ‘Sketches of the Author’s Life’ in Sterling Essays and Tales (1848) i, p. xv.
See Peter Allen The Cambridge Apostles. The Early Years (Cambridge 1978) esp. pp. 48, 50.
Carlyle, Life of John Sterling (1851) pt i, ch. viii, pp. 69–80.
Augustus J. C. Hare, Memorials of a Quiet Life (1873) ii, 87.
G. G. Bradley, quoted by K. Chorley, Arthur Hugh Clough, The Uncommitted Mind: A Study of his Life and Poetry(Oxford 1962) p. 60, from W.Knight, Principal Shairp and his friends (1888) p. 49.
J. H. Stirling, ‘De Quincey and Coleridge upon Kant’, Fortnightly Review (1867) vii, 377–97.
C.M. Ingleby, ‘On some Points concerned with the Philosophy of Coleridge’: Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom (1870) 2nd series, ix, 396–433.
See F. W. Maitland, Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (1906) pp. 421–2. Stephen had just been reading the 1895 edition of Coleridge’s Letters.
H. R. Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler (1947) pp. 106–7.
D. A. Wilson, Carlyle in Old Age (1934) pp. 314ff. When Carlyle eventually sought help from a passer-by she was quickly able to oblige, since she turned out to be James Gillman’s sister.
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Beer, J. (1993). Coleridge’s Elusive Presence among the Victorians. In: Romantic Influences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23118-8_6
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