Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

The son of a clergyman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge studied at Christ's Hospital (1782-90) and Jesus College Cambridge. After a brief stint in the dragoons, Coleridge joined Robert Southey in Pantosocratic plans. The Wedgewoods rewarded his journalism with a pension in 1798, enabling a trip to Germany with Wordsworth (1798-99). Coleridge lived at Keswick (1802-04) before abandoning his family to work as secretary to the governor of Malta (1804-06); upon his return he lived at Grasmere and edited an unsuccessful periodical, the Friend (1809). Coleridge spent the remainder of his life in London, writing, conversing, lecturing, and suffering from melancholia and addiction.

TEXT RECORDS:

1794Monody on the Death of Chatterton.
1795An Allegoric Vision: Superstition, Religion, Atheism.
1795Effusion XXIV. In the Manner of Spenser. [Lines in the Manner of Spenser.]
1795[Allegory of Liberty and Famine.]
1796Songs of the Pixies.
1796To the Author of Poems published anonymously at Bristol, in September, 1795.
1797 ca.Christabel. [Part I.]
1798Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue.
1798[The Raven.]
1803Introduction to the Sonnets.
1812 ca.Literary Remains: Coleridge on Spenser.
1817Biographia Literaria.
1827[Coleridge on Spenser, June 24, 1827.]

PUBLICATIONS:

The fall of Robespierre: an historic drama. 1794.
A moral and political lecture delivered at Bristol. 1795.
Conciones ad populum: or addresses to the people. 1795.
The plot discovered: or an address to the people, against ministerial treason. 1795.
An answer to a letter to Edward Long Fox MD. 1795.
Ode on the departing year. 1796.
Poems on various subjects. 1796, 1797, 1803.
The watchman. 1796.
Fears in solitude. 1798.
Lyrical ballads [with Wordsworth]. 1798.
Wallenstein: a drama in two parts translated from the German of Frederic Schiller. 1800.
The Friend: a literary, moral, and political weekly paper. 1809-10, 1818.
Omniana; or Horae Oitosiores [with Robert Southey]. 2 vols, 1812.
Remorse: a tragedy in five acts. 1813.
Christabel; Kubla Khan: a vision; The pains of sleep. 1816.
The statesman's manual ... a lay sermon. 1816.
Biographia literaria. 2 vols, 1817.
Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters: a lay sermon. 1817.
Sibylline leaves: a collection of poems. 1817.
Zapolya: A Christmas tale in two parts. 1817.
On method. 1818.
Aids to reflection. 1825.
Poetical works. 1828.
On the constitution of church and state. 1830.
The devil's walk: a poem [with Southey]. 1830.
Poetical works. 3 vols, 1834.
Specimens of the table-talk, ed. H. N. Coleridge. 2 vols, 1835.
Literary remains, ed. H. N. Coleridge. 4 vols, 1836-39.
Letters, conversations, and recollections, ed. T. Allsop. 2 vols, 1836.
Confessions of an inquiring spirit, ed. H. N. Coleridge. 1840.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life, ed. S. B. Watson. 1848.
Notes and lectures upon Shakespeare and some of the old poets and dramatists, with other literary remains, ed. Mrs. H. N. Coleridge. 2 vols, 1849.
Essays on his own time, ed. Sara Coleridge. 3 vols, 1850.
Complete works, ed. W. G. T. Shield. 7 vols, 1853.
Notes theological, political, and miscellaneous, ed. Derwent Coleridge. 2 vols, 1853.
Anima poetae, from the unpublished notebooks, ed. E. H. Coleridge. 1895.
Biographica epistolaris, being the biographical supplement of Biographia literaria, ed. A. Turnbull. 2 vols, 1911.
Complete poetical works, ed. W. H. Coleridge. 2 vols, 1912.
Coleridge on logic and learning, with selections from the unpublished manuscripts, ed. A. D. Snyder. 1929.
Shakespearean criticism, ed. T. M. Raysor. 2 vols, 1930.
Miscellaneous criticism, ed. T. M. Raysor. 1936.
The philosophical lectures, ed. Kathleen Coburn. 1949.
Coleridge on the seventeenth century, ed. Roberta Florence Brinkley. 1955.
Collected Letters, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs. 6 vols, 1956-73.
Notebooks, ed. Kathleen Coburn. 1957- .
Collected letters, ed. E. L. Griggs. 6 vols, 1956-68.
Collected works, ed. Kathleen Coburn. 1969- .

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Christ's Hospital
Jesus College Cambridge

secretary
poet
essayist
dramatist
journalist

The Watchman
Annual Anthology
The Critical Review
Blackwood's Magazine
Fraser's Magazine
The Friend
The Morning Post
The Morning Chronicle
The Courier
Friendship's Offering
Literary Souvenir
The Amulet

Washington Allston
John Anster
Thomas Beddoes
Rev. William Lisle Bowles
Rev. Henry Francis Cary
Henry Nelson Coleridge
Joseph Cottle
Humphry Davy
Thomas De Quincey
George Dyer
Sir Charles Abraham Elton
Barron Field
John Hookham Frere
William Godwin
William Hazlitt
John Abraham Heraud
Margaret Holford
Leigh Hunt
James Jennings
Charles Lamb
Charles Lloyd
Robert Lovell
Mary Russell Mitford
Dr. David Macbeth Moir
John Murray
Thomas Pringle
Bryan Waller Procter
Henry Crabb Robinson
Mary Robinson
Samuel Rogers
Thomas Sanderson
William Sotheby
Robert Southey
Thomas Noon Talfourd
William Taylor of Norwich
John Thelwall
John Horne Tooke
Alaric Alexander Watts
John Wilson
William Wordsworth

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed); DLB.

David Rivers, Literary Memoirs of Living Authors (1798); "Cantabridgiana. Mr. Coleridge" Monthly Magazine 17 (1 March 1804) 125; Peter L. Courtier, ed., Lyre of Love (1806); Poetical Register for 1806-07 (1811), 1808-09 (1812); "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" The Cabinet NS 1 (February 1809) 99-104 [portrait]; Biographia Dramatica (1812); John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes (1812-15); "Mr. Coleridge" The Champion (27 March 1814) 102-03; Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); "Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Southey" The Examiner (6 April 1817) 211-12; "Coleridge's Revolutionary Drama" Monthly Magazine 44 (September 1817) 108-09; "Observations on the Biographia Literaria" Blackwood's Magazine 2 (October 1817) 3-18; "An Estimate of the Literary Character and Works of Mr. Coleridge" Monthly Magazine 46 (December 1818) 407-09; "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" in New Monthly Magazine 11 (April 1819) 240-43 [portrait]; "Mr. Coleridge's Biographia Literaria" Monthly Magazine 49 (October 1819) 203-05; "Letter from Mr. Odoherty, enclosing the Third Part of Christabel" Blackwood's Magazine 5 (June 1819) 286-91; "Memoir of Mr. Coleridge" European Magazine 76 (July 1819) 4-8 [portrait]; "Coleridge" Blackwood's Magazine 6 (October 1819) 3-12; "Strictures on Messrs. Leigh Hunt, Coleridge, and Company" Literary Chronicle 2 (29 July 1820) 489-91; Henry Nelson Coleridge, "On Coleridge's Poetry" Etonian No. IV (1821); Leigh Hunt, "Mr. Coleridge" Examiner (21 October 1821) 664-67 [portrait]; "On Coleridge's Poetry" Etonian 1 (1822) 315-25; "Living Poets of Great Britain: Samuel Taylor Coleridge" Imperial Magazine 4 (December 1822) 1093-1103; "On the Poetry of Coleridge" Literary Speculum 2 (August 1822) 145-51 [portrait]; "S. T. Coleridge" La Belle Assemblee NS 27 (February 1823) 53-57; "S. T. Coleridge Esq." Ladies' Monthly Museum S3 17 (April-May 1823) 203-07, 256-59; William Hazlitt, Select British Poets (1824); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); William Hazlitt, "Mr. Coleridge" in Spirit of the Age (1825); A New Biographical Dictionary of 3000 Cotemporary Public Characters (1825); "Noctes Ambrosianae No. xxvii" Blackwood's Magazine 20 (1826) 96-97; "Personal and Literary Character of S. T. Coleridge" Philadelphia Monthly Magazine 1 (November 1827) 57-60; Living Poets of England: Specimens of the Living British Poets (1827); Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries (1828); "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" La Belle Assemblee S3 9-10 (June, August 1829) 235-40, 49-52; "Coleridge and Poetry" Westminster Review 12 (January 1830) 1-31; George B. Cheever, Studies in Poetry ... Elegant Extracts (1830); John Abraham Heraud, "Some Account of Coleridge's Philosophy" Fraser's Magazine 5 (June 1832) 585-97; The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent Persons (1832-34); William Maginn, "Gallery of Literary Characters: Samuel Taylor, Esq." Fraser's Magazine 8 (July 1833) 64 [portrait]; Allan Cunningham, "Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (16 November 1833) 769; John Abraham Heraud, "Reminiscences of Coleridge" Fraser's Magazine 10 (October 1834) 379-403; "Coleridge's Poetical Works" Blackwood's Magazine 36 (October 1834) 542-70; obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 2 (November 1834) 544-49; John Gibson Lockhart, "Poetical Works of Coleridge" Quarterly Review 52 (1834); Thomas De Quincey, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by the English Opium-Eater" Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, NS 1 (September-November 1834) 509-520; 588-596; 685-690; NS 2 (January 1835) 2-10 (in Works 1889-90); "Coleridgeiana" Fraser's Magazine 11 (January 1835) 50-58; Thomas Allsop, Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2 vols (1836); Robert Aris Willmott, "S. T. Coleridge at Trinity" in Conversations at Cambridge (1836) 1-37; Joseph Cottle, Early Reminiscences, 2 vols (1837, 1847); James Gillman, Life of Coleridge (1838); S. C. Hall, in The Book of Gems (1838); John Stuart Mill, "Coleridge" London and Westminster Review 33 (1840) 257-302; Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); George Gilfillan, in Gallery of Literary Portraits (1845); William Howitt, Homes and Haunts of the ... British Poets (1847); David Macbeth Moir, Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1856) 83-89; Mary Russell Mitford, "Authors Associated with Places" in Recollections (1852) 386-98; Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Bryan Waller Procter, Charles Lamb, a Memoir (1866); William Jerdan, in Men I have Known (1866) 119-31; The English Poets, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880); James Dykes Campbell, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a Narrative of the Events of his Life (1894); Wright, West-Country Poets (1896) 102-06; Maclise Gallery (1898); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); Reschke, Die Spenserstanze (1918) 28-31; Walter Graham, "Contemporary Critics on Coleridge, the Poet" PMLA 38 (1923) 97-111; John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu: a Study in the Ways of the Imagination (1927); Earl Leslie Griggs, "Coleridge and Mrs. Mary Robinson" Modern Language Notes 45 (1930) 90-95; Alan Lang Strout, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Wilson of Blackwood's Magazine" PMLA 48 (1933) 100-28; E. H. W. Meyerstein, "Chatterton, Coleridge, and Bristol" TLS (21 August 1937) 606; E. K. Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Biographical Study (1938); Lawrence Hanson, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: the Early Years (1938); Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1940-54); Richard W. Armour and Raymond F. Howes, eds., Coleridge the Talker: a Series of Contemporary Descriptions and Comments (1940); Charles E. Mounts, "The Influence of Spenser on Wordsworth and Coleridge" (Diss., Duke University, 1941); Charles E. Mounts, "Coleridge's Self-Identification with Spenserian Characters" Studies in Philology 47 (1950) 522-33; Kathleen Raine, Coleridge (1953); Renwick, OHEL (1963); Morris Marples, Romantics at School (1967); Walter Jackson Bate, Coleridge (1969); J. R. de J. Jackson, Coleridge: the Critical Heritage (1970); Norman Fruman, Coleridge, the Damaged Archangel (1971); Richard & Josephine Haven and Maurianne Adams, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: an Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and Scholarship (1976); Mary Lee Taylor Milton, Poetry of Coleridge: an annotated bibliography 1935-1970 (1981); Paul Magnuson, Coleridge and Wordsworth: a Lyrical Dialogue (1988); Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions (1990); Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Visions (1998); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

1.	1794 Not to be Mistaken, "To S. T. C." Morning Chronicle (27 December 1794).
2.	1796 Charles Lamb, "Lines addressed, from London, to Sara and S. T. C. at Bristol, in the Summer of 1796" The Monthly Magazine 3 (January 1797) 54-55.
3.	1796 ca. James Jennings, in "Retrospective Wanderings" 1796 ca.; Jennings, Poems (1810) 187-88 &n.
4.	1797 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, in "To Mr. C—ge" 1797; The Monthly Magazine 7 (April 1799) 231.
5.	1797 Charles Lamb, "Sonnet to a Friend" The Monthly Magazine 4 (October 1797) 288.
6.	1797 ca. Thomas Sanderson, 1797 ca.; in J. Lowthian, Life and Literary Remains of Thomas Sanderson (1829) lxiv-lxv.
7.	1797 George Dyer, in The Poet's Fate, a Poetical Dialogue (1797) 26-28 &n.
8.	1798 Anna Seward to Henry Francis Cary, 4 March 1798; Letters, ed. Scott (1811) 5:54-62.
9.	1798 Robert Southey to William Taylor of Norwich, 5 September 1798; J. W. Robberds, Memoir of the Life and Writings of William Taylor (1843) 1:223.
10.	1799 Charles Burney, in Review of Lyrical Ballads; The Monthly Review NS 29 (June 1799) 203.
11.	1799 T., "Sonnet, in the Manner of S. T. Coleridge, R. Southey, C. Lamb, and C. Lloyd" The True Briton (29 May 1799).
12.	1800 Philopoesis, "Sonnet, in imitation of the Manner and Sentiment of our Contemporaries" The Meteor No. 8 (1800) 2:98.
13.	1800 Mary Robinson, "Ode, inscribed to the Infant Son of S. T. Coleridge, Esq. born Sept. 14, at Keswick, in Cumberland" Morning Post and Gazetteer (17 October 1800).
14.	1800 Mary Robinson, "To the Poet Colerdige" 1800; Robinson, Poetical Works (1806) 1:226-29.
15.	1801 Alexander Thomson, in The British Parnassus, at the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) 36-27 & n.
16.	1804 Capel Lofft, "To Coleridge" 1804; Laura, ed. Capel Lofft (1814) No. CLI.
17.	1804 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 30 March 1804; Life and Correspondence (1849-50) 2:277.
18.	1804 George Dyer, "Cantabrigiana: Mr. Coleridge" The Monthly Magazine 17 (March 1804) 125.
19.	1808 Edward Jerningham to Lady Bedingfield, 1808; The Jerningham Letters (1896) 1:315-17.
20.	1808 Thomas Stott, "Sonnet. On Reading Mr. Coleridge's beautiful Ode entitled 'France'" Walker's Hibernian Magazine (August 1808) 501.
21.	1809 Lord Byron, in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809); Poetical Works ed. E. H. Coleridge (1898) 1:316-17.
22.	1810 Walter Scott, in "Living Poets" Edinburgh Annual Register for 1808 (1810) 2:427-28.
23.	1812 Charles Lamb, 17 January 1812, Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1870; 1872) 1:193.
24.	1813 Francis Hodgson, "The Resurrection-Tragedy, by S. T. C." Leaves of Laurel; or New Probationary Odes, for the Vacant Laureatship (1813) 15-16.
25.	1814 Thomas Barnes, "Portraits of Authors. Mr. Coleridge" The Champion (29 March 1814) 102-03.
26.	1814 Anonymous, in Modern Parnassus; or, The new Art of Poetry, a Poem (1814) 45-46 &n.
27.	1816 John Hamilton Reynolds, in "Pilgrimage of Living Poets to the Stream of Castaly" The Champion (7 April 1816) 110.
28.	1816 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 26 April 1816; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 6:487.
29.	1816 Thomas Moore, Review of Coleridge, Christabel; Edinburgh Review 27 (September 1816) 58-67.
30.	1817 William Hazlitt, Review of Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; Edinburgh Review 28 (August 1817) 488-515.
31.	1818 Anonymous,"An Estimate of the Literary Character and Works of Mr. Coleridge" The Monthly Magazine 46 (December 1818) 407-09.
32.	1819 William Maginn, "Introduction to Christabel Part the Third" Blackwood's Magazine 5 (June 1819) 286-87.
33.	1820 Percy Bysshe Shelley, in "Letter to Maria Gisborne" 1820; Posthumous Poems (1824) 65.
34.	1820 David Carey, in "The Mansion of the Poets" Beauties of the Modern Poets (1820) xxii.
35.	1820 Anonymous, in "On the present State of Poetical Talent" New Bon Ton Magazine 5 (September 1820) 282-85.
36.	1822 Anonymous, in "The Augustan Age in England" The Album 1 (1822) 216-17.
37.	1822 N. R., in "Epistle to W. W." Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany NS 11 (September 1822) 313.
38.	1822 James Harley, in The Press, or Literary Chit-Chat. A Satire (1822) 26-27 &n.
39.	1823 Anonymous, "Portraitures of Modern Poets: S. T. Coleridge Esq." Ladies' Monthly Museum S3 17 (April-May 1823) 203-07, 256-59.
40.	1823 Anonymous, in "The Literary Police Office, Bow-Street, London" Port Folio [Philadelphia] S4 15 (June 1823) 504-05.
41.	1824 Mary Howitt to Anna Botham, 4 August 1824; An Autobiography (1889) 1:242-43.
42.	1825 William Hazlitt, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits (1825) 61-79.
43.	1825 John Herman Merivale, Diary Entry, 20 August 1825; Anna Wilhelmina Merivale, Family Memorials (1884) 261-64.
44.	1825 Anonymous, "A Ghost Seer" The Kaleidoscope [Liverpool] NS 5 (7 June 1825) 416.
45.	1826 Anonymous, in "Anecdotical Recollections" New Monthly Magazine NS 19 (June 1826) 564.
46.	1826 Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, in "Four Months in Europe" New-York Literary Gazette and American Athenaeum 3 (21 October 1826) 74.
47.	1827 A. P., "An Essay on Coleridge's Life and Poetry" Living Poets of England: Specimens of the Living British Poets (1827) 1:413-19.
48.	1828 Leigh Hunt, "Mr. Coleridge" Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries (1828) 300-04.
49.	1828 Walter Scott, 22 April 1828; The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, 1825-32 (1891) 578.
50.	1829 H., "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" La Belle Assemblee S3 9 (June 1829) 235-40.
51.	1829 A. P., in "The Progress of Poetry" American Monthly Magazine [Boston] 1 (December 1829) 645-46.
52.	1830 ca. Henry Francis Cary, 1830 ca.; in Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary (1847) 2:299-300.
53.	1830 George Barrell Cheever, in Studies in Poetry ... A copious Collection of Elegant Extracts (1830) 279-80.
54.	1830 Richard Warner, in Literary Recollections of the Rev. Richard Warner (1830) 2:155-56n.
55.	1831 John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 75.
56.	1833 John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 807.
57.	1833 Allan Cunningham, in "Biographical and Critical History of the Literature of the last Fifty Years" in The Athenaeum (16 November 1833) 769.
58.	1833 William Maginn, "Gallery of Literary Characters: Samuel Taylor, Esq." Fraser's Magazine 8 (July 1833) 64.
59.	1834 Felicia Hemans, 1834; Russell Book of Authors (1860) 395.
60.	1834 Robert Southey to G. C. Bedford, 27 July 1834; New Letters, ed. Curry (1965) 2:415.
61.	1834 Charles Lamb, "The Death of Coleridge" 1834; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 1:351-52.
62.	1834 Washington Allston, "Sonnet on the late S. T. Coleridge" 1834; Lectures on Art (1850) 346.
63.	1834 Henry Nelson Coleridge, "Coleridge's Poetical Works" Quarterly Review 52 (August 1834) 1-38.
64.	1835 John Abraham Heraud, "Ode on the Death of Coleridge" Fraser's Magazine 11 (January 1835) 58.
65.	1836 Isaac Clark Pray, "English Bards: Samuel Taylor Coleridge" Prose and Verse, from the Port Folio of an Editor (1836) 54-56.
66.	1839 Thomas Hood, in "Reminiscences of Thomas Hood" Hood's Own (1839) 560.
67.	1844 Leigh Hunt, in Imagination and Fancy (1844) 278-79.
68.	1846 John Dix, in "Reminiscences of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Charles Lamb" Pen and Ink Sketches of Poets, Preachers, and Politicians (1846) 129-39.
69.	1847 Cyrus Redding, in "Life and Reminiscences of Thomas Campbell" New Monthly Magazine 79 (April 1847) 429.
70.	1851 David Macbeth Moir, in Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1852) 83-89.
71.	1852 Mary Russell Mitford, in "Authors Associated with Places. Thomas Chatterton — Robert Southey — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — William Wordsworth" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 394-97.
72.	1854 Robert Shelton Mackenzie, Note in Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 4:57n.
73.	1856 Samuel Rogers, in Table Talk (1856) 203.
74.	1858 Cyrus Redding, in Fifty Years' Recollections (1858) 3:68-69.
75.	1864 ca. Zilla Wiffen Watts, 1864 ca.; in Alaric Alfred Watts, Alaric Watts, a Narrative of his Life, by his Son (1884) 1:242-43.
76.	1866 Bryan Waller Procter, in Charles Lamb: a Memoir (1866) 70-71.
77.	1871 S. C. Hall, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" in A Book of Memories: Great Men and Women of the Age, from personal Acquaintance (1871) 27-48.
78.	1873 Joseph Devey, "The Lake Poets. Coleridge" A Comparative View of Modern English Poets (1873) 104-11.
79.	1878 Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, in Recollections of Writers (1878) 34.
80.	1880 Walter Pater, in The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880) 4:102-14.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

1.	1798 David Rivers, in Literary Memoirs of Living Authors (1798) 1:105-07.
2.	1806 Peter L. Courtier, in Lyre of Love (1806) 2:118.
3.	1809 Anonymous, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Esq." The Cabinet NS 1 (February 1809) 99-104.
4.	1812 Stephen Jones, in Biographia Dramatica; or, A Companion to the Playhouse (1812) 1:134-35.
5.	1816 Anonymous, in Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816) 70.
6.	1829 Cyrus Redding, "Memoir of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats (1829) v-xi.
7.	1832 William Clarke and Robert Shelton Mackenzie, in The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most eminent Persons who have flourished in Great Britain (1832-34) 3:424-25.
8.	1834 Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 2 (November 1834) 544-49.
9.	1834 John Abraham Heraud, "Reminiscences of Coleridge, Biographical, Philosophical, Poetical, and Critical" Fraser's Magazine 10 (October 1834) 379-403.
10.	1838 S. C. Hall, in The Book of Gems. The Modern Poets and Artists of Great Britain (1838) 50.
11.	1838 Henry Fothergill Chorley, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" The Authors of England (1838) 37-43.
12.	1844 Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 2:333-37.
13.	1847 William Howitt, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets (1847) 2:68-104.
14.	1883 William Bates, after William Maginn; Maclise Gallery (1883; 1898) 178-85.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1794 Edmund Burke: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Sonnets on Eminent Characters. II" Morning Chronicle (9 December 1794).
2.	1794 Thomas Chatterton: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Monody on the Death of Chatterton" Chatterton, Poems (1794) xxv-xxviii.
3.	1795 Rev. William Lisle Bowles: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Sonnets to Eminent Characters. No. VII" Morning Chronicle (26 December 1794).
4.	1795 William Godwin: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Sonnets to Eminent Characters. No. IX. To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice" Morning Chronicle (10 January 1795).
5.	1795 Robert Southey: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Sonnets to Eminent Characters. No. X. To Robert Southey, of Baliol College, Oxford" Morning Chronicle (14 January 1795).
6.	1796 Dr. Erasmus Darwin: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Joseph Cottle, January 1796; Cottle, Reminiscences (New York, 1847) 64.
7.	1797 John Thelwall: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Joseph Cottle, 1797; Cottle, Reminiscences (New York, 1847) 112.
8.	1798 Thomas Chatterton: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Mr. Coleridge on his Monody" The Monthly Magazine 5 (January 1798) 9.
9.	1798 Joseph Cottle: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 15 April 1798; Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882) 1:433.
10.	1800 Sir James Mackintosh: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Extempore Lines, by a celebrated Poet, on Sir J. Mc—sh" 1800; New Bon Ton Magazine 4 (April 1820) 364-65.
11.	1800 Mary Robinson: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "A Stranger Minstrel" 1800; Robinson, Poetical Works (1806) 1:xlviii-li.
12.	1800 ca. William Roscoe: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia to Barclay's Argenis, 1800 ca.; Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 434.
13.	1800 Rev. Thomas Warton: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notebook 30, fol 61v-62, 1800 ca.; Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 558.
14.	1803 William Preston: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Poems (1803) 81.
15.	1809 Thomas Brown: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in The Friend (1809-10); Table Talk, ed. Shedd (1884) 237n.
16.	1810 David Hume: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 23 December 1810; Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1870; 1872) 1:162.
17.	1810 ca. Francis Quarles: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "To a Junior Soph, at Cambridge," ca. 1810; in Works, ed. Shedd (New York, 1864) 4:427.
18.	1811 William Godwin: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 30 March 1811; Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1870; 1872) 1:169.
19.	1814 Hannah More: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Joseph Cottle, 27 May 1814; in Cottle, Reminiscences (1847) 283-84.
20.	1816 John Hookham Frere: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Murray, 4 July 1816; Smiles, in A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir of John Murray (1891) 1:305.
21.	1817 Rev. James Hervey: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Biographia Literaria (1817); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05) 3:397.
22.	1817 Gilbert West: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817); ed. Engell and Bate (1983) 1:24.
23.	1818 Rev. Jonathan Swift: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Lecture XIV (1818, 1836); Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 416.
24.	1819 William Maginn: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blackwood, 30 June 1819; Margaret Oliphant, William Blackwood and his Sons (1897) 1:412-13.
25.	1820 ca. Dr. John Aikin: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1820 ca.; Table Talk (1884) 320.
26.	1820 Robert Burns: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1820 ca.; in Table Talk (1834) 321.
27.	1820 ca. Thomas Campbell: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1820 ca.; Table Talk (1884) 329.
28.	1820 ca. Rev. Peter Heylyn: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia to Heylyn, Life of Laud; in Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 224.
29.	1820 ca. Philip Massinger: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia to Daniel's Civil Wars, 1820 ca.; in Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 515.
30.	1820 ca. Rev. Henry More: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notebook 18, p. 302; Brinkley, Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 617-18.
31.	1820 ca. Alexander Pope: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notebook 17, fol. 80v, 1820 ca.; Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 544.
32.	1821 Thomas Gray: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 21 April 1821; Table Talk (1884) 301.
33.	1822 Lord Byron: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 29 December 1822; Table Talk (1884) 16.
34.	1824 Abraham Cowley: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2 June 1824; in Table Talk (1884) 38.
35.	1824 ca. Alaric Alexander Watts: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Alaric Alexander Watts, 1824 ca.; in Alaric Alfred Watts, Alaric Watts, a Narrative of his Life, by his Son (1884) 1:152-54.
36.	1829 Rev. John Donne: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1825 ca.; Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 526.
37.	1829 Rev. Thomas Fuller: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia in Fuller, Church History, July 1829; in Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 470.
38.	1830 Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 30 May 1830; Table Talk (1884) 320.
39.	1830 Rev. Richard Bentley: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 25 June 1830; in Table Talk (1884) 98.
40.	1830 ca. William Congreve: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830 ca.; "William Congreve" Northern Worthies; in Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century (1955) 681.
41.	1830 Charles Lamb: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 23 September 1830; in Table Talk (1884) 110.
42.	1830 Sir Philip Sidney: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in On the Constitution of Church and State (1830); ed. John Colmer (1976) 64-65.
43.	1830 John Thelwall: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 26 July 1830; Table Talk (1884) 103.
44.	1831 Samuel Daniel: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 11 September 1831; in Table Talk (1884) 138.
45.	1831 Michael Drayton: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 11 September 1831; in Table Talk (1884) 137-38.
46.	1832 John Keats: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 16 August 1832; Table Talk (1884) 180.
47.	1833 Francis Beaumont: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1 July 1833; in Table Talk (1884) 234.
48.	1833 Sir Richard Blackmore: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833; in Robert Aris Willmott, "S. T. Coleridge at Trinity" in Conversations at Cambridge (1836) 7.
49.	1833 Edmund Burke: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 8 April 1833; in Table Talk (1884) 207.
50.	1833 Rev. Robert Burton: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833; in Robert Aris Willmott, "S. T. Coleridge at Trinity" in Conversations at Cambridge (1836) 31.
51.	1833 Bp. John Hacket: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 15 June 1833; in Table Talk (1884) 229.
52.	1833 Samuel Johnson: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1 November 1833; Table Talk (1884) 266-67.
53.	1833 Rev. William Mason: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 3 January 1833; in Table Talk (1884) 184.
54.	1833 John Milton: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 18 August 1833; in Table Talk (1884) 250.
55.	1833 Sir Walter Raleigh: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833; in Robert Aris Willmott, "S. T. Coleridge at Trinity" in Conversations at Cambridge (1836) 26.
56.	1833 William Wordsworth: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 16 February 1833; Table Talk (1884) 193.
57.	1834 Rev. George Crabbe: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 5 March 1834; Table Talk (1884) 276.
58.	1834 Henry Fielding: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 5 July 1834; in Table Talk (New York, 1835) 2:171.
59.	1834 Walter Savage Landor: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1 January 1834; Table Talk (1884) 268.