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In the 1790s America held out enticing prospects to the young. To those who were disillusioned by the violence of the French Revolution the new state across the Atlantic offered a possible alternative, an order in which new ideas and social experiments could be carried out freely by those who were prepared to live in more primitive conditions.
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See J. R. Flagg, Life and Letters of Washington Allston (R. Bentley & Son, 1893), esp. pp. 32–75. Flagg’s information is not totally reliable, however.
Quoted by William Dunlap, A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States II (New York; G. P. Scott, 1834, repr. 1969) p. 167. Cf. CT 108.
Flagg, Allston 96–8; C. R. Leslie, Autobiographical Recollections ed. Tom Taylor. 2 vols I (London: John Murrey, 1860) 33, 35.
S. F. B. Morse, Letters and Journals, ed. E. L. Morse, 2 vols, I (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914 ) p. 95.
W. H. Channing, Memoir of William Ellery Channing, II (Boston: W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols; London: J. Chapman, 1848 ) pp. 211–21.
James Fenimore Cooper, Gleanings in Europe ed. R. E. Spiller, 2 vols. II (New York: Oxford University Press 1928–30) p. 332.
See, e.g., Roy Park, ‘Poetic imagination in Coleridge and Kant’, British Journal of Aesthetics (1968) VIII, 335–46.
W. Hanna, Memoirs of… Thomas Chalmers 3 vols. in (N.Y. 1851) pp. 160–1.
See H. F. Henderson, Erskine of Linlathen ( Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, 1899 ) p. 92.
For this and the subsequent events see A. L. Drummond, Edward Irving and his circle (J. Clarke, 1938 ) pp. 136–228.
H. B. McLellan, Journal of a Residence in Scotland and Tour through England, France, etc. (Boston: Allen K. Ticknor, 1834) pp. 230–2; CT 302–3.
Emma Willard, Journal and Letters from France and Great-Britain ( Troy, NY: N. Tuttle 1833 ) pp. 311–12.
S. T. Williams, Life of Washington Irving (New York: Oxford University Press, 1935) I, 63–5. Flagg’s statement (Allston 61) that all three walked round Rome together is an error.
Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, ed. J. McVickar (New York: Swords, Standford, 1839 ) Introduction, pp. xi–xiii.
P. Allen, The Cambridge Apostles: The Early Years (Cambridge University Press, 1978) p. 45.
T. W. Reid, The Life, Letters and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes (London: Cassell, 1890) II, p. 432.
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Beer, J. (1990). Transatlantic and Scottish Connections: Uncollected Records. In: Gravil, R., Lefebure, M. (eds) The Coleridge Connection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20667-4_15
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