[17] For the benefit of any reader who may wish to follow up the steps of the Pope controversy, I give the titles of Bowles’ successive pamphlets.  “The Invariable Principles of Poetry:  A Letter to Thomas Campbell, Esq.,” 1819.  “A Reply to an ‘Unsentimental Sort of Critic,’” Bath, 1820. [This was in answer to a review of “Spence’s Anecdotes” in the Quarterly in October, 1820.] “A Vindication of the Late Editor of Pope’s Works,” London, 1821, second edition. [This was also a reply to the Quarterly reviewer and to Gilchrist’s letters in the London Magazine, and was first printed in vol. xvii., Nos. 33, 34, and 35 of the Pamphleteer.] “An Answer to Some Observations of Thomas Campbell, Esq., in his Specimens of British Poets” (1822).  “An Address to Thomas Campbell, Esq., Editor of the New Monthly Magazine, in Consequence of an Article in that Publication” (1822).  “Letters to Lord Byron on a Question of Poetical Criticism,” London, 1822.  “A Final Appeal to the Literary Public Relative to Pope, in Reply to Certain Observations of Mr. Roscoe,” London, 1823.  “Lessons in Criticism to William Roscoe, Esq., with Further Lessons in Criticism to a Quarterly Reviewer,” London, 1826.  Gilchrist’s three letters to Bowles were published in 1820-21.  M’Dermot’s “Letter to the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Reply to His Letter to Thomas Campbell, Esq., and to His Two Letters to Lord Byron,” was printed at London, in 1822.

[18] “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
     We could not laugh nor wail,” etc.

     “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
     Agape they heard me call,” etc.

     “Are those her sails that glance in the sun
       Like restless gossamers? 
     Are those her ribs,” etc.

Cf. “Christabel”: 

        “Is the night chilly and dark? 
        The night is chilly, but not dark.”

And see vol. i., p. 271.

[19] “Anima Poetae,” 1895, p. 5.  This recent collection of marginalia has an equal interest with Coleridge’s well-known “Table Talk.”  It is the English equivalent of Hawthorne’s “American Note Books,” full of analogies, images, and reflections—­topics and suggestions for possible development in future romances and poems.  In particular it shows an abiding prepossession with the psychology of dreams, apparitions, and mental illusions of all sorts.

[20] “Jesu Crist and Seint Benedight
    Blisse this hous from every wicked wight,
    Fro the nightes mare, the white Pater Noster;
    Where wonest thou, Seint Peter’s suster.” 
            —­“The Miller’s Tale.”

[21] Vide supra, p. 27.

[22] “Biographia Literaria,” chap. xxiv.

[23] Keats quotes this line in a letter about Edmund Kean.  Forman’s ed., vol. iii., p. 4.

[24] Vide supra, p. 14.

[25] Brandl thinks that this furnished Keats with a hint or two for his “Belle Dame sans Merci.”  Coleridge’s “Dejection:  An Ode” is headed with a stanza from “the grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence.”