Lectures and notes on Shakspere and other English poets. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Now first collected, by T. Ashe, B.A., of St. John’s College, Cambridge, Author of “Songs Now and Then,” “The Sorrows of Hypsipyle,” &c.

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8vo. pp. xi, f. [1], pp. [3]-552. Includes plate stating that the book was awarded as a prize to Louisa Yeomans of the Girls’ High School of Burton-on-Trent for “Languages Form IV.” First published in 1883, in the month of John Payne Collier’s death. In April 1881 Collier had granted permission for his notes made in shorthand in 1811-1812 of seven lectures by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and extracts from his preface to the ‘Seven lectures on Shakespeare and Milton’ (see Bib# 4117168/Fr# 990 in this collection) to be republished by George Bell. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, p. 1231. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.