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Samuel Daniel

  

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Samuel Daniel : Hymen's Triumph

'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... '

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      

  

Samuel Daniel : Musophilus

'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... '

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      

  

Samuel Daniel : Musophilus, or a Defence of all Learning

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'Mary read a poem of Daniel upon Learning.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hutchinson      Print: Book

  

Samuel Daniel : The History of the Civil War

"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's Poetical Works], thought quite well of it, so he annotated it to try to win Lamb over ... [writing]: "'Dear Charles, I think more highly, far more, of the 'Civil Wars,' than you seemed to do (on Monday night, Feb. 9th 1808) -- the Verse does not Teize me; and all the while I am reading it, I cannot but fancy a plain England-loving English Country Gentleman, with only some dozen Books in his whole Library ...'"

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Samuel Daniel : The History of the Civil War

"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's Poetical Works], thought quite well of it, so he annotated it to try to win Lamb over ... [writing]: "'Dear Charles, I think more highly, far more, of the 'Civil Wars,' than you seemed to do (on Monday night, Feb. 9th 1808) -- the Verse does not Teize me; and all the while I am reading it, I cannot but fancy a plain England-loving English Country Gentleman, with only some dozen Books in his whole Library ...'"

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Samuel Daniel : The Poetical Works of Mr Samuel Daniel

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Samuel Daniel : [poems complete works]

'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with "also rans" Cowley, Milton and "Hudibras" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson      Print: Book

  

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