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THE LITERARY REMAINS 
OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 
 
COLLECTED AND EDITED BY 
HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE, ESQ. M.A. 
VOLUME THE SECOND 
 
CONTENTS 
VOL. II. 
 
LITERARY REMAINS.
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 Cæsar Antony and Cleopatra 
Timon of Athens Romeo and Juliet Shakspeare's English Historical 
Plays King John Richard II. 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 Epicène 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 Æschylus 
Note on Chalmers'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. 
Fénélon 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 
 
LITERARY REMAINS 
 
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. 
See the 'Canterbury Magazine', September, 1834. Ed. 
My next Friday's lecture will, if I do not grossly flatter-blind myself, be 
interesting, and the points of view not only original, but new to the 
audience. I make this distinction, because sixteen or rather seventeen 
years ago, I delivered eighteen lectures on Shakspeare, at the Royal 
Institution; three-fourths of which appeared at that time startling 
paradoxes, although they have since been adopted even by men, who 
then made use of them as proofs of    
    
		
	
	
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