419-21. For his early interest in Percy, Ossian, and Chatterton, ibid.,
pp. 299, 328, 368-70.

[2] "There is as much difference between Coleridge's brief poem
'Christabel' and all the narrative poems of Walter Scott . . . as between
a precious essence and a coarse imitation of it got up for sale." (Leigh
Hunt's "Autobiography," p. 197).

[3] "Samuel Taylor Coleridge und die Englische Romantik," Alois Brandl,
Berlin, 1886.

[4] It is in view of his critical attitude, not of his poetry, that
Saintsbury applies this title to Coleridge. "The attitude was that of a
mediaevalism inspired by much later learning, but still more by that
intermediate or decadent Greek philosophy which had so much influence on
the Middle Ages themselves. This is, in other words, the Romantic
attitude, and Coleridge was the high priest of Romanticism, which,
through Scott and Byron, he taught to Europe, repreaching it even to
Germany, from which it had partly come." ("A Short History of English
Literature," by George Saintsbury, London, 1898, p. 656).

[5] "Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School," by Alois
Brandl. Lady Eastlake's translation, London, 1887, pp. 219-23.

[6] See vol. i., pp. 160-61.

[7] "Fourteen Sonnets, written chiefly on Picturesque Spots." Bath, 1789.

[8] "Samuel Taylor Coleridge," p. 37. _Cf._ Wordsworth's Sonnets "Upon
Westminster Bridge" (1802) and "Scorn Not the Sonnet."