#OTD 1819 Coleridge’s last public lecture, ‘History of Philosophy.’

BL CXI 'There is scarce a department of human knowledge without some bearing on the various critical, historical, philosophical and moral truths, in which the scholar must be interested as a clergyman...'

#OTD 1794 ‘I have ordered… a pair of breeches, which will be nineteen shillings, a waistcoat at twelve shillings, a pair of shoes at seven shillings and four pence... I must have a hat, which will be eighteen shillings, and two neckcloths, which will be five or six shillings.’

STC's visit to Greta Hall in 1812, the last he ever paid to the Lake Country, lasted about a month, from February 23 to March 26.

MS notebook 1798-9 'March 25... Easter Monday, Chester and S. T. C., in a damn’d dirty hole in the Burg Strasse at Göttingen, possessed at that moment eleven Louis d’ors and two dollars. When the money is spent in common expenses S. T. C[.] will owe Chester 5 pounds 12 shillings'

#OTD 1832: ‘I have for more than eighteen months been on the brink of the grave… I commit myself, poor dark creature, to an Omniscient and All-merciful… O trust, in your Redeemer! in the coeternal Word, the Only-begotten, the living Name of the Eternal I AM, Jehovah, Jesus!’

#OTD 1794: ‘There is a vis inertiæ in the human mind—I am convinced that a man once corrupted will ever remain so, unless some sudden revolution, some unexpected change of place or station, shall have utterly altered his connection.’

BL XI 'Among the numerous blessings of Christianity, the introduction of an established Church makes an especial claim on the gratitude of scholars and philosophers; in England.. the principles of Protestantism [have] with the freedom of the government [doubled] all its.. powers'

Another Coleridge Online event from the archives: Joanna Taylor on Coleridge's Ecopoetics youtu.be/AWbsZIQ2oYY?si… via YouTube

A Coleridge Online event from the archive: Graham Davidson on Wordsworth's Intimations Ode and the Cambridge Platon... youtu.be/1JFWO8x9PG0?si… via YouTube

Clip from Murray Evans on Coleridge, Adorno, Sublimity and the Clerisy youtu.be/s5VbfQIS3eA?si… via YouTube Murray's new book on Coleridge's Sublime Later Prose and Recent Theory is here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Highlight from Murray Evans on Coleridge, Adorno, sublimity and the clerisy, Coleridge Online event no. 1 for 2024. Full video at youtube.com/watch?v=1TBxBD…

BL C. XI: 'though talents may exist without genius... genius cannot exist, certainly not manifest itself, without talents...'

John Coleridge, the younger, was in his thirty-first year when he was matriculated as sizar at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, March 18, 1748. He is entered in the college books as filius Johannis textoris.

Last number of “The Friend,” March 15, 1810.

Southey to STC, #OTD 1804: ‘Your departure hangs upon me with something the same effect that the heavy atmosphere presses upon you – an unpleasant thought, that works like yeast, and makes me feel the animal functions going on.’ STC travelled abroad to Malta for his health.

BL C. XI: 'Three hours of leisure, unannoyed by any alien anxiety, and looked forward to with delight as a change and recreation, will suffice to realize in literature a larger product of what is truly genial, than weeks of compulsion.'

#OTD 1794 'Captain Ogle, of our regiment.. returned from abroad, has taken great notice of me. When he visits the stables at night he always enters into conversation with me, and to-day, finding from the corporal’s report that I was unwell, he sent me a couple of bottles of wine'

BL C. X: '...the spirit of jacobinism, which the writings of Burke exorcised from the higher and from the literary classes, may [...] like the ghost in Hamlet, be heard moving and mining in the underground chambers with an activity the more dangerous because less noisy.'

#OTD 1798: ‘The Giant Wordsworth—God love him!.... He has written more than 1,200 lines of a blank verse, superior, I hesitate not to aver, to anything in our language which any way resembles it.’