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قراءة كتاب The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II
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The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II
THE
COLLECTED WRITINGS
OF
THOMAS
DE QUINCEY
BY
DAVID MASSON
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Vol. II
LONDON
A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE
1896
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
From a picture by Peter Vandyke in the National Portrait Gallery
CONTENTS OF VOL. II
| PAGE | ||
| Editor's Preface | 1 | |
| Autobiography Continued from 1803 to 1808— | ||
|---|---|---|
| CHAP. | ||
| I. | Oxford | 9 |
| II. | German Studies and Kant in particular | 81 |
| Literary and Lake Reminiscences— | ||
| CHAP. | ||
| I. | A Manchester Swedenborgian and a Liverpool Literary Coterie | 113 |
| II. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 138 |
| III. | The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth | 229 |
| IV. | The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and Robert Southey | 303 |
| V. | The Lake Poets: Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge | 138 |
| VI. | The Saracen's Head | 348 |
| VII. | Westmoreland and the Dalesmen: Society of the Lakes | 360 |
| VIII. | Society of the Lakes: Charles Lloyd | 381 |
| IX. | Society of the Lakes: Miss Elizabeth Smith, the Sympsons, and the K—— Family | 403 |
| X. | Society of the Lakes: Professor Wilson: Death of Little Kate Wordsworth | 432 |
| XI. | Rambles from the Lakes: Mrs. Siddons and Hannah More | 446 |
William Wordsworth.
From a drawing by Robert Hancock in the National Portrait Gallery.
EDITOR'S PREFACE
The matter of this volume breaks itself into two main divisions, as follows:—
I.—Autobiography continued from 1803 to 1808
Although De Quincey's Autobiography, so far as it was revised by himself in 1853 for the Edinburgh Collective Edition of his writings, stopped at 1803, when he went to Oxford, he left a continuation of that Autobiography, accessible to those that might be curious about it, in two old papers of his in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. One of these, bearing the continued general title "Sketches of Life and Manners from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater," but with the sub-title "Oxford," had appeared, in three successive parts, in the numbers of the magazine for February, June, and August 1835; the other, forming but a single article, had appeared in the number for June 1836, with the simple title, "Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater continued," but without any sub-title, or any indication of its nature except what might be conveyed by the head-lines,—"The German Language," "The German Philosophic Literature," and "The Philosophy of Kant,"—at the tops of the right-hand pages. As