Notes on Coleridge's Criticism, Etc.

Notes to Biographia Literaria

STC's footnotes

from Chapter I

Note: I remember a ludicrous instance in the poem of a young tradesman:

``No more will I endure love's pleasing pain,
Or round my heart's leg tie his galling chain.''

from Chapter XX

...the propriety of the word ``scene,'' ... DRYDEN, and he only in his more careless verses, was the first, as far as my researches have discovered, who for the convenience of rhyme used this word in the vague sense, which has been since too current even in our best writers, ... In Shakespeare and Milton the word is never used without some clear reference, proper or metaphorical, to the theater. ... the word is already more equivocal than might be wished; inasmuch as in the limited use, which I recommend, it may still signify two different things; namely, the scenery, and the characters and actions presented on the stage during the presence of particular scenes.

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