About the Book

In his introduction to this edition of Coleridge's Marginalia, the late George Whalley wrote, "There is no body of marginalia--in English, or perhaps in any other language--comparable with Coleridge's in range and variety and in the sensitiveness, scope, and depth of his reaction to what he was reading." The Princeton edition of the Marginalia, of which this is the sixth volume, brings together over eight thousand notes, many never before printed, varying from a single word to substantial essays. In alphabetical order of authors, the notes are presented literatim from the original manuscripts whenever the annotated volumes can be found. Each note is preceded by the passage of the original text that appears to have provoked Coleridge's comment. Texts in foreign languages are followed by translations. The present volume comprises annotations on more than fifty books and manuscripts (from Valckenaer to Zwick, plus Addenda), including comments on Wordsworth's "Benjamin the Waggoner," "The Prelude," and "Translation of Virgil's Aeneid," as well as on William Godwins's verse drama "Abbas."A key-word index to the six volumes of Marginalia, provided here, will give readers ready access to Coleridge's ideas on subjects ranging from literature and philosophy through religion, politics, history, biography, and science.

Table of Contents:
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi FOREWORD xiii EDITORIAL PRACTICE: A BRIEF GUIDE xxiii ABBREVIATIONS xxv ADDENDA 247 INDEX 337 Marginalia [* designates a "Lost Book"--a book reported to contain marginal notes in C's hand but which the editor has not been able to find and for which no transcript of marginalia is known to exist.] Lodewijk Kasper Valckenaer Diatribe de Aristobulo Judaeo 3 Sir Harry Vane A Healing Question Propounded and Resolved 10 Robert Vaughan The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe 12 William Vincent The Greek Verb Analysed 25 Vindex The Conduct of the British Government 28 Virgil Georgica ... hexaglotta 30 Aeneid tr Wordsworth see William WORDSWORTH Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire A Treatise on Toleration 32 Gerhard Voss Poeticarum institutionum libri tres 34 [Edward Gibbon Wakefield] A Letter from Sydney 35 John Walker A Dictionary of the English Language 38 William Wall Conference between Two Men 41 John Benn Walsh, Baron Ormathwaite On the Present Balance of Parties 44 Popular Opinions on Parliamentary Reform 50 Daniel Waterland The Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity 54 A Vindication of Christ's Divinity 73 Alaric Alexander Watts Poetical Sketches 94 John Webster The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft 95 Adam Weishaupt Apologie des Misvergnugens and Uebels 125 Pythagoras* 128 Ueber den Kantischen Anschauungent 129 Ueber Wahrheit and sittliche Vollkommenheit 130 William Charles Wells Two Essays 131 Benjamin Wheeler Theological Lectures 134 Whistlecraft see FRERE John Whitaker The Origin of Arianism Disclosed 136 Gilbert White Works, in Natural History 147 Thomas Whitfield A Discourse of Liberty of Conscience 154 Christoph Martin Wieland Comische Erzdhlungen 156 Idris 158 Neueste Gedichte 159 Edward Williams Poems, Lyric and Pastoral 161 Walter Wilson Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe 163 Johann Christoph Wolf Curae philologicae et criticae 164 Karl Christian Wolfart Jahrbucher fiir den Lebens-Magnetismus 169 Christian Wolff Logic 171 [Christopher Wordsworth] Six Letters to Granville Sharp 177 "Who Wrote Considered 184 William Wordsworth "Benjamin the Waggoner" MS I 187 The Excursion 189 "The Prelude" MS B 194 "Translation of Virgil Aeneid" 197 Francis Wrangham Life of Dr Richard Bentley 216 Scraps 218 Xenophon Memoirs of Socrates 222 Thomas Young A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophyt* 224 Zeitschrift fur spekulative Physik ed Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling 225 Henry Augustus Zwick Calmuc Tartary 246 ADDENDA Thomas Amory The Life of John Buncle 249 Edwin Atherstone The Last Days of Herculaneum 251 John and Michael Banim Tales by the O'Hara Family 256 Richard Baxter Reliquiae Baxterianae COPY A 257 Joseph Beaumont Some Observations upon the Apologie of Dr Henry Moret* 265 La danse des morts 266 Declaration of Principles 267 Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers 268 William Godwin Abbas 270 John Haslam Medical Jurisprudence 285 Johann Gottfried Herder Verstand and Erfahrung 290 Immanuel Kant Vermischte Schriften COPY D 291 Robert Leighton The Genuine Works COPY B 295 Pietro Metastasio Opere 320 APPENDIX Some Mistaken Attributions 331 INDEX to Vols I to VI 337