Poems from the Plays

✍ Scribed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

v. 4. Notes on Luther -- Notes on St. Theresa -- Notes on Bedell -- Notes on Baxter -- Notes on Leighton -- Notes on Sherlock -- Notes on Waterland -- Notes on Skelton -- Notes on Andrew Fuller -- Notes on Whitaker -- Notes on Oxlee -- Notes on A barrister's hints -- Notes on Davison -- Notes on Irving -- Notes on Noble -- Essay on faith.;v. 2. Extract from a letter written by Mr. Coleridge, in February, 1818, to a gentleman who attended the course of lectures given in the spring of that year -- Extract from a letter to J. Britton, Esq. -- Shakspeare, with introductory matter on poetry, the drama, and the stage -- Definition of poetry -- Greek drama -- Progress of the drama -- The drama generally, and public taste -- Shakspeare, a poet generally -- Shakspeare's judgment equal to his genius -- Recapitulation, and summary of the characteristics of Shakspeare's dramas -- Order of Shakspeare's plays -- Notes on The tempest -- Love's labour's lost -- Midsummer night's dream -- Comedy of errors -- As you like it -- Twelfth night -- All's well that ends well -- Merry wives of Windsor -- Measure for measure -- Cymbeline -- Titus Andronicus -- Troilus and Cressida -- Coriolanus -- Julius Caesar -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Timon of Athens -- Romeo and Juliet -- Shakspeare's English historical plays -- King John -- Henry IV. Part I -- Henry IV. Part II -- Henry V -- Henry VI. Part I -- Richard III -- Lear -- Hamlet -- Notes on Macbeth -- Notes on the Winter's tale -- Notes on Othello -- Notes on Ben Jonson -- Whalley's preface -- Whalley's life of Jonson -- Every man out of his humour -- Poetaster -- Fall of Sejanus -- Volpone -- Epicaene -- The alchemist -- Catiline's conspiracy -- Bartholomew Fair -- The devil is an ass -- The staple of news -- The new inn -- Notes on Beaumont and Fletcher -- Harris's commendatory poem on Fletcher -- Life of Fletcher in Stockdale's edition. 1811 -- Maid's tragedy -- A king and no king -- The scornful lady -- The custom of the country -- The elder brother -- The Spanish curate -- Wit without money -- The humorous lieutenant -- The mad lover -- The loyal subject -- Rule a wife and have a wife -- The laws of candy -- The little French lawyer -- Valentinian -- Rollo -- The wildgoose chase -- A wife for a month -- The pilgrim -- The Queen of Corinth -- The noble gentleman -- The coronation -- Wit at several weapons -- The fair maid of the inn -- The two noble kinsmen -- The woman hater -- On the Prometheus of Aeschylus -- Note on Chalmer's Life of Daniel -- Bishop Corbet -- Notes on Selden's Table Talk -- Note on theological lectures of Benjamin Wheeler, D.D. -- Note on a sermon on the prevalence of infidelity and enthusiasm, by Walter Birch, B.D. -- Fenelon on charity -- Change of the climates -- Wonderfulness of prose -- Notes on Tom Jones -- Jonathan Wild -- Barry Cornwall -- The primitive Christian's address to the cross -- Fuller's holy state -- Fuller's profane state -- Fuller's appeal of injured innocence -- Fuller's church history -- Asgill's argument -- Introduction to Asgill's defence upon his expulsion from the House of Commons -- Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici -- Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Garden of Cyrus -- Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar errors.;v. 1. The fall of Robespierre -- Poems -- "Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace" -- " ... I yet remain" -- To the Rev. W.J. Hort -- To Charles Lamb -- To the nightingale -- To Sara -- To Joseph Cottle -- Casimir -- Darwiniana -- "The early year's fast-flying vapours stray" -- Count Rumford's essays -- Epigrams -- On a late marriage between an old maid and a French Petit Maitre -- On an amorous doctor -- "There comes from Avaro's grave" -- "Last Monday all the papers said" -- To a primrose, (the first seen in the season) -- On the christening of a friend's child -- Epigram, "Hoarse Maevius reads his hobbling verse" -- Inscription by the Rev. W.L. Bowles, in Nether Stowey Church -- Translation -- Introduction to the tale of the dark ladie -- Epilogue to the rash conjuror -- Psyche -- Complaint -- Reproof -- An ode to the rain -- Translation of a passage in Ottfried's metrical paraphrase of the Gospels -- Israel's lament on the death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales -- Sentimental -- The alternative -- The exchange -- What is life? -- Inscription for a time-piece -- A course of lectures -- Prospectus -- General character of the Gothic mind in the Middle Ages -- General character of the Gothic literature and art -- The troubadours, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Pulci, Chaucer, Spenser -- Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger -- Don Quixote. Cervantes -- On the distinctions of the witty, the droll, the odd, and the humorous ; the nature and constituents of humour ; Rabelais, Swift, Sterne -- Donne, Dante, Milton, Paradise Lost -- Asiatic and Greek mythologies, Robinson Crusoe, use of works of imagination in education -- Dreams, apparitions, alchemists, personality of the evil being, bodily identity -- On poesy or art -- On style -- Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici -- Notes on Junius -- Notes on Barclay's Argenis -- Note on Casaubon's Persius -- Notes on Chapman's Homer -- Note in Baxter's life of himself -- Fragment of an essay on taste -- Fragment of an essay on beauty -- Poems and poetical fragments -- Omniana -- The French decade -- Ride and tie -- Jeremy Taylor -- Criticism -- Public instruction -- Picturesque words -- Toleration -- War -- Parodies -- M. Dupuis -- Origin of the worship of Hymen -- Egotism -- Cap of liberty -- Bulls -- Wise ignorance -- Rouge -- Hasty words -- Motives and impulses -- Inward blindness -- The vices of slaves no excuse for slavery -- Circulation of the blood -- Periturae Parcere Chartae -- To have and to be -- Party passion -- Goodness of heart indispensable to a man of genius -- Milton and Ben Jonson -- Statistics -- Magnanimity -- Negroes and narcissuses -- An anecdote -- The Pharos at Alexandria -- Sense and common sense -- Toleration -- Hint for a new species of history -- Text sparring -- Pelagianism -- The soul and its organs of sense -- Sir George Etherege, &c. -- Evidence -- Force of habit -- Phoenix -- Memory and recollection -- Aliquid ex Nihilo -- Brevity of the Greek and English compared -- The will and the deed -- The will for the deed -- Sincerity -- Truth and falsehood -- Religious ceremonies -- Association -- Curiosity -- New truths -- Vicious pleasures -- Meriting heaven -- Dust to dust -- Human countenance -- Lie useful to truth -- Science in Roman Catholic states -- Voluntary belief -- Amanda -- Hymen's torch -- Youth and age -- December morning -- Archbishop Leighton -- Christian honesty -- Inscription on a clock in Cheapside -- Rationalism is not reason -- Inconsistency -- Hope in humanity -- Self-love in religion -- Limitation of love of poetry -- Humility of the amiable -- Temper in argument -- Patriarchal government -- Callous self-conceit -- A librarian -- Trimming -- Death -- Love an act of the will -- Wedded union -- Difference between Hobbes and Spinosa -- The end may justify the means -- Negative thought -- Man's return to heaven -- Young prodigies -- Welch names -- German language -- The universe -- Harberous -- An admonition -- To thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry -- Definition of miracle -- Death, and grounds of belief in a future state -- Hatred of injustice -- Religion -- The Apostles' Creed -- A good heart -- Evidences of Christianity -- Confessio Fidei.;v. 3. Formula Fidei de SS. Trinitate -- Nightly prayer -- Notes on the Book of common prayer -- Notes on Hooker -- Notes on Field -- Notes on Donne -- Notes on Henry More -- Notes on Heinrichs -- Notes on Hacket -- Notes on Jeremy Taylor -- Notes on The pilgrim's progress -- Notes on John Smith -- Letter to a godchild.