Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Lamb, etc., being selections from the Remains of Henry Crabb Robinson
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"Of studie took he moost cure and moost heede,
Not o word spak he moore than was neede,
And that was seyd in forme and reuerence,
And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence.
Sownynge in moral vertu teas his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche."
CONTENTS
Prefatory Note | page | ix | |
Introduction: HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, by the Editor | xi | ||
Diary Account of BLAKE | 1 | ||
Extracts from a Letter from Crabb Robinson to Dorothy Wordsworth referring to BLAKE | 14 | ||
Extracts from the Reminiscences of BLAKE | (a) 1810 | 17 | |
(b) 1825-27 | 18 | ||
Reminiscences: COLERIDGE, WORDSWORTH, LAMB, etc. | 28 | ||
COLERIDGE'S LECTURES | |||
Introduction by the Editor | 92 | ||
I | Summary of the Lecture on Poetry, Feb. 5, 1808 | 102 | |
II | Letters from Crabb Robinson to Mrs. Clarkson (May 7 and May 15, 1808) | 104 | |
III | (a) Prospectus of the Lectures delivered in 1811 | 112 | |
(b) Account in Diary of the 1811–12 Lectures | 113 | ||
IV | (a) Letter from Crabb Robinson to Mrs. Clarkson (Nov. 29, 1811) | 121 | |
(b) Letter from Crabb Robinson to Mrs. Clarkson (Dec. 13, 1811) | 123 | ||
(c) Letter from Crabb Robinson to Thomas Robinson (Dec. 14, 1811) | 126 | ||
(d) Letter from Crabb Robinson to Mrs. Clarkson (Jan. 3, 1812) | 128 | ||
(e) Letter from Crabb Robinson to Mrs. Clarkson (Jan. 28, 1812) | 129 | ||
V | Account in Diary of the Lectures in May and June, 1812 | 130 | |
VI | (a) Syllabus of Lectures, 1812–13 | 132 | |
(b) Account in Diary of the Lectures, 1812–13 | 134 | ||
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VII | The 1818 Lectures | ||
(a) Letter from Coleridge to Crabb Robinson | 137 | ||
(b) Prospectus and Syllabus | 138 | ||
(c) Account in the Diary of the Lectures, 1818 | 143 | ||
The Estrangement between COLERIDGE and WORDSWORTH | |||
(a) Extracts from the Diary | 146 | ||
(b) Letters: Crabb Robinson to Thomas Robinson (May 20, 1812) | 156 | ||
Mrs. Clarkson to Crabb Robinson (May 29, 1812) | 157 | ||
Appendix: BLAKE autograph | 159 | ||
Index | 163 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
Henry Crabb Robinson (æt. 86) Frontispiece
After the engraving by W. Holl, from a photograph by Maull & Co. (Reproduced, by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd., from "Crabb Robinson's Diary," edited by Dr. Sadler.)
Henry Crabb Robinson facing page 96
From an engraving after a pencil sketch from life, September 4th, 1860, at the Athenæum Club, by G. Scharf, F.S.A. (Reproduced, by kind permission of Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. Ltd., from "Letters of Charles Lamb," Vol. I, edited by William Macdonald.)