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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists; With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge
Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists With Other Literary Remains of S T Coleridge Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Original Publisher: W. Pickering Subjects: English drama Literature Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR re... more »print of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Among others at Christmas, presents used to be given to the children by the parents, and they were delivered on Christmas day by a person who personated, and was supposed by the children to be, Christ: early on Christmas morning he called, knocking loudly at the door, and (having received his instructions) left presents for the go. od and a rod for the bad. Those who have since been in Germany have found this custom relinquished; it was considered profane and irrational. Yet they have not found the children better, nor the mothers more careful of their offspring; they have not found their devotion more fervent, their faith more strong, nor their morality more pure. LECTURE III. The Troubadours -- Boccaccio -- Petrarch -- Pulci -- Chaucer -- Sp enser. THE last Lecture was allotted to an investigation into the origin and character of a species of poetry, the least influenced of any by the literature of Greece and Rome, -- that in which the portion contributed by the Gothic conquerors, the pre- See this custom of Knecht Rupert more minutely described in Mr. Coleridge's own letter from Germany, published in the 2nd vol. of the Friend, p. 320. Ed. dilections and general tone or habit of thought and feeling, brought by our remote ancestors with them from the forests of Germany, or the deep dells and rocky mountains of Norway, are the most prominent. In the present Lecture I must intr...« less