Sermones : Sobre los Lay Sermons de S. T. Coleridge

Entre 1816 y 1817, un lapso de la historia inglesa política y socialmente complejo, Coleridge pública dos curiosos textos bajo el titulo de Sermones Laicos, además de su Biographia Literaria, una recopilación de sus poemas, una obra de teatro y una nueva edición de su periódico The Friend. Los Sermones son curiosos artefactos de interpretación de la cultura que utilizan los libros proféticos de la Biblia y las nociones fundamentales de la filosofía trascendental para leer los problemas socio políticos de la escena contemporánea. Esa difícil combinación en la figura del Intelectual-Profeta deja un molde para críticos futuros como Thomas Carlyle, Thomas De Quincey, Matthew Arnold y T.S. Eliot.

I. Sermons, 1709-1724

This series contains seventeen handwritten sermons composed by Nicholas Sever and delivered in the Boston area between 1709 and 1722. Following the completion of his Master's degree at Harvard in 1704, Sever preached in towns around New England including Haverhill in 1709, Dover, New Hampshire (where he was ordained in 1711 and remained until 1715), and in Cambridge as part of his duties as a Harvard Tutor between 1716 and 1728. During these years, Sever also filled in for ministers in nearby parishes. Sever's sermons reflect these engagements, and he occasionally noted the dates and locations where the sermons were delivered in the margin of the first page of the sermon.

Abstracts of sermons preached at Harvard College, 1728-1729

Small notebook containing notes kept by John Winthrop on sermons he attended between September 1, 1728 and October 19, 1729, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The volume contains one-to-two page entries on specific sermons and provides the biblical text and related doctrines, questions, and conclusions. The inside back cover contains a handwritten index of the minister who gave the sermon, most often Nathaniel Appleton.