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THE FIRST TWO EDITIONS OF COLERIDGE'S 'FRIEND': EDITED BY LUCYLE WERKMEISTER
Abstract
Too much of this puzzling, unfortunately, has to be done over dangling participles, pronouns wit: ambiguous or absent references, and uncertain and rambling argumente. tried to assist the reader wherever I could. I have I have at- tempted to supply in the introduction the philosophical base upon which the Friend rests; I have suggested in notes pos- sible solutions of some of the linguistic and non-linguistic riddles; and I have tried in summaries to simplify and organize the arguments of the more philosophical essays. Many readers. will find this assistance gratuitous and offensive; I can only hope that a few will find it helpful. The Friend it- self requires no apology. It demands study, but it rewarde study. In this connection I can do no better than to quote from a letter which Harold J. Laski wrote to Justice Holmes on November 7, 1916: From Hazlitt I have passed for bed-reading to Coleridge; and his Friend and the Aids to Reflection strike me as simply first-class political thinking. I wonder how that attitude in him has escaped the critics; but I suppose that they are so preoccupied with style as to miss Leslie Stephen apart the significance of the matter. of the very highest quality. That fellow Just breathed mind He sees to have read every- thing and to have gone with a poet's sureness of touch to the great tinga in what he read. of men like K. Arnold about him.
Subject Area
Modern literature|Literature
Recommended Citation
WERKMEISTER, LUCYLE, "THE FIRST TWO EDITIONS OF COLERIDGE'S 'FRIEND': EDITED BY LUCYLE WERKMEISTER" (1956). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI0017368.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI0017368