Abstract
Spring 1796. The ‘Salutation’ days are over. The group of friends has scattered. The Pantisocratic ideal has collapsed into mutual recrimination, and Coleridge, married to Sara Fricker in October 1795, is attempting to recreate the plan on a limited scale, cultivating philosophy amongst his potatoes in Nether Stowey. Lamb has been left alone in London. ‘I go no where,’ he writes miserably to Coleridge, ‘& have no acquaintance [ ... ] no one seeks or cares for my society’ (Marrs, I: 17). But if the religiously and politically inflected ideal of sharing and sociability discussed in 1794 and 1795 could not be realised in practice, perhaps it might find literary manifestation. In early 1796, Cottle published a little collaborative volume of Poems on Various Subjects which might have seemed, to Lamb, the natural successor to the warm sociable space of friendship idealised in the ‘Salutation’ days.KeywordsSympathetic ResponseOxford StreetEmotional InsecurityMonthly MagazineActive BenevolenceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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