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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
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'You have probably seen Henry’s book on Homer. It is wonderfully clever, does him much credit.
I thoroughly sympathize, (hang the word it’s always intruding) with his admiration of the old
bard, tho’ by what subtlety of logic he reconciles this admiration with his theory of the
Homeridae, I cannot tell. ...’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Book
‘Mr. Parry has not yet received the Number of the Quarterly containing the Review of my book
- but I got a sight of it the other day at Mrs. [Louise] Claude’s. I am, of course, obliged to the
author; but I really think if he had been rather less brotherly, or cousinly, or call it what you
will, it would have been all the better. He lets the cat out of the bag. It looks too like a family
concern. I think the praise excessive, but let that pass. I should have wished him to treat the
sentiments, which you said gave him pain, with no more ceremony than if the name Dan
O’Connell instead of Hartley Coleridge had been on the title page. ...’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
‘Here, Hal, you see the influence you possess as a Tremensian; no one, not even Bingley,
would have thought [of?] continuing the work had it not been for your panegyric. I may at
least thank you for my fame, such as it is. Dear Snouderumpater charged me with being
rather ungracious, if not ungrateful, in my remarks on that business. Nothing could be farther
from my feelings. In fact, I had then only very slightly run over the article at a friend’s house;
on reperusing it carefully, I find more of the Ars celare artem, more proper fault-finding, than
I at first observed. ...’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
