sion of the perpetual question why education seems to lead men away from religion, and in Huxley's and Stevenson's so different impressions of the relation between our philosophy of life and the "new science," which was "new" in the days of Bacon, of Locke, and of Hume, and will again be "new" in the twenty-first century. It is worth while emphasizing this oddly old-new aspect of the study of the substance of literature, in order that the aim of our culture in the wise words of a recent critic may be "not to merge the present in a dream of the past, but to hold the past as a living force in the present." R. M. A. CONTENTS Various anecdotes of the author's literary life, and the progress of his opinions in religion and politics. Occasion of the "Lyrical Ballads.". . . The ensuing controversy. ... Philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry ON THE TRAGEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE (1812) CHRIST'S HOSPITAL FIVE AND THIRTY YEARS AGO (1820) DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND READING (1822) A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG (1822). THE PLEASURES OF OPIUM (1821) . ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN "MACBETH" (1823). BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria" (1817) |