tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post5437582292358789541..comments2024-03-18T19:05:39.072-07:00Comments on Morphosis: Coleridge in the "Sortes Horatianae" (1814)Adam Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-81333915453487638732013-06-26T06:54:15.781-07:002013-06-26T06:54:15.781-07:00To be clear: it's always been known that Coler...To be clear: it's always been known that Coleridge was a digressive lecturer; but the but the critical consensus is that they were successful, with Coleridge revered as a great and profound speaker. This from the intro to R A Foake's standard edition of the <i>Lectures 1808-19 on Literature</i> (Princeton Univ. Press 1987): '[Crabb Robinson reported the lectures] quite dazzling ... 'Coleridge's digressions are not the worst part of his lectures' ... another who attended one lecture was delighted by Coleridge's eloquence ... what Mary Russell Mitford called the 'electric power of [his] genius ... James Gillman said of them 'in his lectures he was brilliant, fluent and rapid; his words seemed to flow as from a person repeating with grace and energy some delightful poem.' Foakes records that some people found some of the lectures a bit dull; but not that on occasion STC's audience literally laughed at him. That last thing is the new bit, I think.Adam Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.com