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-1791] THE BLUE-COAT BOY 15 instinct of reverence to superiors in worldly rank, represented to his youth by the dignified Governors who occasionally visited the school. 1 This 'inferiority-complex' as modern jargon has it, explains the singular deference with which he always approached such men as Sir George Beaumont and J. H. Frere, and sometimes even extended to those of his own standing, much to the annoyance of Southey, who disliked being called "dear and honoured 5 , and of John Rickman, who called it 'a habit of assentation'? The formal discharge from the Hospital is dated on 7 September. But Coleridge was able to spend the August holidays at Ottery, where he may have found none but his mother to greet him. Frank was now in India, where he died next year; and of all that long tale of children, only James, Edward, and George, besides <strong>Samuel</strong> himself, lived to maturity. James had left the army on his marriage to a woman of means, and was now living at Tiverton. In 1796 he bought the Chanter's House at Ottery, where he devoted himself to the Volunteer movement, and became the progenitor of a long line of Coleridges, mostly in the legal profession. Edward, a witty but not very high-principled man, of whom <strong>Samuel</strong> came to see and think little, was now living at Salisbury, but later also returned to Ottery. George was still in London until 1794, when he became master of the Ottery Grammar School, as his father had been before him. 3 I do not think that there is anything very remarkable about the poems of Coleridge's boyhood. The earliest which can be dated is of 1787, on the joys of starting for Easter holidays, joys in which he probably did not himself share. Several are school exercises, thought by Boyer worthy of being entered in a Liber Aureus which he kept. 4 One called Dura Navis, which does not appear in the Liber,, is interesting because of Boyer's criticisms upon it, which Coleridge recorded in a note. He told him to avoid "apostrophes' and 'O thou's' as "the grimaces of lunacy', and to leave out as many epithets as would reduce decasyllabic into octosyllabic lines and then ask himself whether the exercise would not 1 A. 27. 2 Cf. pp. 169,181. 3 D .H. 24,56,57,62. 4 P.W. 1, 4, 6, 7,12,13.
16 THE BLUE-COAT BOY [1772-91] be greatly improved. 1 It was long, however, before Coleridge's Muse could shake herself free of apostrophes. It may be added that the manchineel, so abhorred of Boyer, and the cognate upas tree had always a fatal attraction for Coleridge. Thus in 1797 he writes of "chance-started friendships' how: Some most false, False and fair-foliaged as the Manchineel, Have tempted me to slumber in their shade, E'en mid the storm; then breathing subtlest damps, Mix'd their own venom with the rain from Heaven, That I woke poison'd! Lamb chaffs him, c If you don't write to me, I shall get angry, and call you hard names—Manchineel and I don't know what else'. 2 The elegiac influence of Bowles does not, of course, show itself until near the end of the period. It was to become stronger afterwards. And it must have largely counteracted Boyer's, for Bowles's tender reflections on his eventide walks by river and ruined castle are soft with otiose epithets. 1 p.w. 2. 2 P.W. 174; O.T. i. 69; L. 31; Add!. MS. 27901, ff. 4 a 19 a ; cf. Lowes, 18.
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V THE ANNUS MIRABILIS March 1797—
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-1798] THE ANNUS MIRABILIS 91 That
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[1798-9] GERMANY 105 burg, some thi
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-1799] GERMANY 109 of his mind, in
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-1799] GERMANY 111 up with the song
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-1799] GERMANY 113 finally settled
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-1799] GERMANY 115 importance to me
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[1799-1800] THE JOURNALIST 117 Edwa
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-x8oo] THE JOURNALIST 121 his poor
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VIII DISASTER July 1800—April 180
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-1802] DISASTER 135 included; and,
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-1802] DISASTER 151 which Coleridge
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[1802-3] ON THE WING 157 He reporte
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[1804-6] MALTA 179 George Beaumont'
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-1806] MALTA 181 a good deal of soc
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-1806] MALTA 183 took the form of '
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-1806] MALTA 185 shine and the marv
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-1806] MALTA 187 unalterably my lot
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XI SEPARATION August 1806—June 18
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-1808] SEPARATION 197 which has the
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-1808] SEPARATION 201 nothing. Mean
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-1808] SEPARATION 213 Stoddart had
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XIV IN THE DEPTHS March 1813—Marc
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XV FAIR HAVEN March 1816—December
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To GEORGE DYER [1796, May 29. From
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338 APPENDIX makes a figure &c. &c.
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348 APPENDIX disgust you, as a Mate
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3jo APPENDIX Somewhat grieved by yo
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358 APPENDIX all, he will learn, of
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360 Loss of belongings, 24, 113, 19
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362 INDEX: S. T. COLERIDGE 'Love an
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364 Brainbridge, Mrs., 206. Brathay
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366 GENERAL INDEX Dawes, John, 215,
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368 GENERAL INDEX India, 180. Irela
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370 Mudford, William, 283. Munster,
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372 Stuart, Daniel, 86, 99, 108, 11
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