Coleridge the Metaphysician;“… I am Only a Kind of a Metaphysician”

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London, 1838), pp. 22–23. Cato was the pseudonym of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, who wrote Cato's Letters: Or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects.

In general I am concerned only with the gradual development of Coleridge's metaphysical thought, and the form in which he expressed his metaphysical system; I am not concerned about the sources of his thought. Those who are interested in his German sources are referred to Professor Beach's Joseph Warren “Coleridge's Borrowings from the German,” ELH, IX (March, 1942), 36–58, in which will be found a summary of many of Coleridge's sources and an extensive bibliography of the literature on the subject. Vide A. A. Helmholz , The Endebtedness of S. T. Coleridge to A. W. Schlegel (University of Wisconsin Press, 1907); Howard Claud , Coleridge's Idealism: A Study of Its Relationship to Kant and the Cambridge Platonists (Boston, 1924); and Kennedy Virginia W. Barton Mary N. Taylor Samuel Coleridge, a Select Bibliography … (Baltimore, 1935).

The Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2 vols. (London Constable & Co., 1932), I, 8, footnote 1.

Gillman , Life of Coleridge, p. 33.

Griggs , Unpublished Letters of Coleridge, I, 1.

Gillman, op. cit., pp. 33–34.

Ibid., p. 34.

Griggs, op. cit., I, 5.

Ibid., I, 39.

J. Dykes Campbell. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London, 1896), pp. 94–102, esp. p. 98.

Coleridge Ernest Hartley , ed. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2 vols. (Boston, 1895), I, 321. For further information concerning Coleridge's sojourn in Germany, see Morley Edith J. , “Coleridge in Germany (1799)”, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Studies in Honor of George McLean Harper (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1939), pp. 220–239.

(Boston, 1927), passim.

Griggs, op. cit., I, 131.

Ibid., I, 141.

Ibid., I, 142.

E. H. Coleridge, Letters, I, 181.

Campbell, Coleridge, pp. 121–122.

Ibid., pp. 97–98.

Griggs, op. cit., I, 140–141.

Campbell, op. cit., p. 119.

Griggs, op. cit., I, 165.

Ibid., I, 211–213, 225.

Campbell, op. cit., p. 120.

Coleridge and the Broad Church Movement (Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1942), p. 59.

Shedd Professor , ed. The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; The Literary Remains, 7 vols. (New York, 1871), V, 325–326.

Shedd , ed. Aids to Reflection, I, 155.

Ibid., I, 268–269, footnote.

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Or System of Universal Knowledge on a Methodical Plan, Second Edition, Revised (London, 1851), p. 64.

Ency. Metro., p. 20.

Watson Seth B. , ed. Hints Toward the Formation of a More Comprehensive Theory of Life (London, 1848), p. 35.

Griggs, op. cit., I, 131.

Snyder Alice D. , Coleridge on Logic and Learning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929), p. 23.

Aids to Reflection, p. 272, footnote.

“Coleridge and the Idea of Evolution,” PMLA, XL (June, 1925), 379–397.

PMLA, XL, 388.

Snyder , Coleridge on Logic and Learning, p. 128.

Theory of Life, p. 21.

Literary Remains, p. 483.

Griggs , Letters, I, 140.

Snyder, op. cit., p. 35.

Griggs, op. cit., I, 264–265.

Ibid., I, 263. Griggs quotes from Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, II, 218.

Thorpe Clarence DeWitt , “Coleridge on the Sublime,” Wordsworth and Coleridge, Studies in Honor of George McLean Harper, pp. 218–219.

Snyder, Op. cit., p. 4.