The Watchman (periodical)

The Watchman was a short-lived periodical established and edited by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1796. The first number was promised for 5 February 1796 but actually appeared on 1 March. Published by Coleridge himself, it was printed at Bristol by Nathaniel Biggs,^[1] and appeared every eight days to avoid tax.^[2] Publication ceased with the tenth number (published 13 May 1796).^[3] The publication contained essays, poems, news stories, reports on Parliamentary debates, and book reviews.^[4]

The volumes all contain explicitly political material such as the ‘Introductory Essay’, (a history of ‘the diffusion of truth’); the ‘Essay on Fasts’, (attacking the alliance of church and state power); two anti-Godwinian items, ‘Modern Patriotism’ and ‘To Gaius Gracchus’; ‘To the Editor of the Watchman’ (reporting the trials of friends of freedom John Gale Jones and John Binns); and an extract from Coleridge’s lecture ‘On the Slave Trade’.^[5] ^[6]

References

^ "Charles Lamb: Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters: Contents". www.lordbyron.org.
^ Roe, Nicholas. "Coleridge's Watchman Tour". Friends of Coleridge. Coleridge Bulletin. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
^ Johnson, S. F., 'Coleridge's The Watchman: Decline and Fall', The Review of English Studies, 1953
^ "The Watchman". Archive Org. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
^ Perry, Seamus (30 September 1999). Coleridge and the Uses of Division. University of Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-19-818397-6. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
^ Patton, Lewis. "Excerpt from: The Collected Works Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Watchman" (PDF). University of Pennsylvania website. Princeton University Press. Retrieved 17 November 2015.

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List of poems
Topics	Early life Opium use Albatross metaphor Lake Poets Pantisocracy Person on business from Porlock Coleridge's theory of life Organic form Romantic epistemology Suspension of disbelief
Early poetry	"The Destruction of the Bastile" "Dura Navis" "Easter Holidays" "Monody on the Death of Chatterton" "On Quitting School" "Pain: Composed in Sickness" "Songs of the Pixies" "The Ballad of the Dark Ladié" Love (Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie)
Plays	The Fall of Robespierre Remorse (Osorio) Zapolya
Cambridge and Bristol poetry	The Destiny of Nations Lines on an Autumnal Evening Lines Written at Shurton Bars On Receiving an Account Ode on the Departing Year Poems on Various Subjects Sibylline Leaves Religious Musings To a Young Ass To Fortune To the River Otter "Lewti"
Eminent Characters	"To Erskine" "To Burke" "To Priestley" "To Fayette" "To Kosciusko" "To Pitt" "To Bowles" "To Mrs Siddons" "To Godwin" "To Southey" "To Sheridan" "To Lord Stanhope"
Conversation poems	Dejection: An Ode The Eolian Harp Fears in Solitude Frost at Midnight The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison To William Wordsworth
Late poetry and Lyrical Ballads	Christabel "France: An Ode" "Hymn Before Sunrise" Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "The Devil's Thoughts" "Time, Real And Imaginary" "The Knight's Tomb"
Biographical and other works	Biographia Literaria The Watchman Notebooks
Family	Sara Coleridge (daughter) Derwent Coleridge (son) Hartley Coleridge (son) Christabel Rose Coleridge (granddaughter) Ernest Hartley Coleridge (grandson) Herbert Coleridge (grandson) James Coleridge (brother) Henry Nelson Coleridge (nephew and son-in-law)

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