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Early Recollections - Volume 2

Early Recollections - Volume 2

Cottle, Joseph

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1108079318
ISBN13: 9781108079310
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 5 2015
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The reminiscences of Bristol bookseller Joseph Cottle (1770 1853) have been described as 'unreliable but essential'. The son of a tailor, Cottle was an avid reader, opening a bookshop in 1791. Three years later he was introduced to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, and became the earliest publisher of their works: through them, he also knew Wordsworth, and published the Lyrical Ballads in 1798. He later fell out with all three men, and in 1837 published (despite Southey and Coleridge's family attempting to prevent it) this quickly notorious two-volume work, through which Cottle lost an expensive libel case in which he was sued by Hannah More's coachman. Ten years later, he recast the book as Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (also reissued in this series). Both works contain evasions and distortions, but are valuable for their account of some vital years in the lives of the great Romantic poets.

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