life samuel taylor vol von coleridge gillman james (2 Ergebnisse)

0. 8°. X, 362 p., cloth binding. Bindung worn and browned. Lining cracked. Else good copy. Englisch Band: 0.

8vo, pp. x, 362, [1] errata; without advertisements at the end, but with an eight-page advertisement catalogue at the front of the volume; in the original blue-green pebble-grain cloth, with drinking-glass stain on upper cover but otherwise in good condition; paper label on spine (a little darkened and chipped). First edition: this is volume I only, but the projected second volume was never published. Gillman, a surgeon living in Highgate, took Coleridge into his household in 1816, to help him cure him of his opium addiction: the poet stayed with the Gillmans for the rest of his life and owed virtually all his subsequent happiness and achievements to their extraordinary care. James Gillman's protection of Coleridge did not cease with his death, and this projected biography was part of the campaign by his friends and relations (notably his daughter Sara and her husband Henry Nelson Coleridge) to prevent the greatest poet of his time perhaps not even excepting Wordsworth from posthumous ridicule. It is dedicated to one of Coleridge's other great admirers, J.H. Green. Keynes, Pickering, p. 67. Provenance. Bookplate of Thomas Worsley (1787-1885), Master of Downing College, Cambridge, from 1836 until his death almost fifty years later.