Record Number: 33915

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

‘Of course you have read his [Robert Southey's] colloquies – and with delight – but delight mingled with sorrow, that so much beautiful truth should be intertwined, and in a manner, interpenetrated with so much dangerous error – so much historical research accompanied with so much inconsiderate assertion, such extensive and kindly observation of human life unsupported by a profounder knowledge of human nature. The fictitious communion between a living Poet of the 19th century and the ghost of a Courtier of the 16th is not a happy form for such momentous arguments. It might have done well enough for a single dialogue, but two bulky volumes of ventriloquism and falsetto is too much in all conscience – like this voluminous letter of mine, you will say.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan and 30 Aug 1830

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Hartley Coleridge

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Sep 1796

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Poet, essayist, teacher

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Robert Southey

Title:

Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, History, Social Science, Politics, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: J. Murray, 1829.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33915

Source:

Print

Author:

Hartley Coleridge

Editor:

Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs

Title:

Letters of Hartley Coleridge

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

113

Additional Comments:

Letter addressed to Hartley's brother, Derwent Coleridge, 'Begun August - Finished August 30, [1830.]' Hartley is referring to Robert Southey’s Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, 1829.

Citation:

Hartley Coleridge, Grace Evelyn and Earl Leslie Griggs (ed.), Letters of Hartley Coleridge, (London, 1936), n/a, p. 113, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33915, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None