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Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Henry Nelson Coleridge
Dinner with Coleridge meant listening, gloriously. His nephew wrote the monologues down, and the table talk preserves the poet ranging over nominalists and realists, Spinoza, madness, nitrous oxide and the promise of young poets, one dazzling evening at a time. The greatest talker of his age, caught mid-sentence. Pull up a chair to the best conversation of the nineteenth century.
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24 chapters
- 1PREFACE.
- 2CONTENTS
- 3TABLE TALK
- 4POPEDOM.—SCANDERBEG.—THOMAS À BECKET.—PURE AGES OF GREEK, ITALIAN, AND ENGLISH.—LUTHER.—BAXTER.—ALGERNON SIDNEY'S STYLE.—ARIOSTO AND TASSO.— PROSE AND POETRY.—THE FATHERS.—RHENFERD.—JACOB BEHMEN.
- 5PROPHECIES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.—MESSIAH.—JEWS.—THE TRINITY.
- 6MOSAIC MIRACLES.—PANTHEISM.
- 7POETIC PROMISE.
- 8NOMINALISTS AND REALISTS.—BRITISH SCHOOLMEN.—SPINOSA.
- 9FALL OF MAN.—MADNESS.—BROWN AND DARWIN.—NITROUS OXIDE.
- 10SIR T. MONRO.—SIR S. RAFFLES.—CANNING.
- 11CONSTITUTIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL LIFE.—HYSTERIA.—HYDRO-CARBONIC GAS.— BITTERS AND TONICS.—SPECIFIC MEDICINES.
- 12FAUST.——MICHAEL SCOTT, GOETHE, SCHILLER, AND WORDSWORTH.
- 13GERMAN.—GOETHE.—GOD'S PROVIDENCE.—MAN'S FREEDOM.
- 14HACKET'S LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS.—CHARLES I.—MANNERS UNDER EDWARD III., RICHARD II., AND HENRY VIII.
- 15MANDEVILLE'S FABLE OF THE BEES.—BESTIAL THEORY.—CHARACTER OF BERTRAM.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER'S DRAMAS.—ÆSCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES,—MILTON.
- 16JULY 3. 1833.
- 17JULY 4. 1833.
- 18LORD BYRON AND H. WALPOLE'S "MYSTERIOUS MOTHER."—LEWIS'S "JAMAICA JOURNAL."
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