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This book has since 1892 been in the possession of the British Museum, but I am not aware that Coleridge's notes have hitherto been printed, or in any way brought to the notice of readers. Yet this, I think, they deserve, not only for their intrinsic interest, but also because they illustrate an unfamiliar aspect of Coleridge's critical powers. The general reader is apt, perhaps, to think of the critic Coleridge exclusively as a critic of literature. But, lacking though he was in any equipment of technical knowledge or training, Coleridge showed himself, at least in his later years, an enthusiastic and discriminating student of the painter's art. To this enthusiasm the first impetus came, perhaps, from his friendship with Sir George Beaumont, the "Mæcenas of Coleorton," which dates from 1803; but it was not until he visited Rome in 1806 that he succeeded, by a close 66 66 study of the city's masterpieces, in laying the foundations of a cultivated taste and judgment. By my regular attention to the best of the good things in Rome," he wrote subsequently, and associating almost wholly with artists of acknowledged highest reputation, I acquired more insight into the fine arts in three months than I could have done in England in three years." but such as This insight he fostered as best he might on the scantier material accessible to him in his native land, and in the pages of 'Table Talk' we have evidence that his interest in painting remained with him to the end of his life. Of positive criticisms of the art we have, indeed, but few examples in his published writings; exist are, I believe, sufficiently noticeable to justify us in welcoming any addition to them. For not only does Coleridge display, on the whole, a just discrimination with regard to the great masters of painting—a possession far rarer and more difficult of acquisition in his day than in ours; but his constant endeavour to ground his judgments upon the principles common to all art (principles themselves based, it may be added, on the facts of human nature and human life) makes his criticisms of individual pictures illuminating and suggestive, even where they are not convincing. In this connexion it should be remembered that Coleridge's only attempt at a thoroughgoing analysis of beauty (his Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism concerning the Fine Arts') is based, to quote his own words, upon the laws and impulses which guide the true artist in the production of his works"; and that it is more especially from the arts of statuary and painting that he purposes to draw his illustrations. It was in the spirit of this inquiry that all his art-studies (if this be not too ambitious a title) were conducted; and we can understand what his nephew meant when he wrote in 1831 that exclusively for the ideal or universal in Coleridge had an eye almost painting or music." Not, indeed, that Coleridge was indifferent to formal merits of line or colour; but in the end the true value of any picture lay for him in its significance as an imaginative interpretation of life. 66 66 Hogarth and Sir Joshua Reynolds, their pictures and their genius, form the main topics of these marginalia. With Hogarth's paintings they show a close familiarityso close that one is led to suspect that Coleridge has a collection of prints before him as he writes. His acquaintance with Sir |