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, and appeared every eight days to avoid tax.[1] Publication ceased with the tenth number (published 13 May 1796).[2] The publication contained essays, poems, news stories, reports on Parliamentary debates, and book reviews.[3]

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’.[4] [5]

References
  1. Roe, Nicholas. "Coleridge's Watchman Tour". Friends of Coleridge. Coleridge Bulletin. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  2. Johnson, S. F., 'Coleridge's The Watchman: Decline and Fall', The Review of English Studies, 1953
  3. "The Watchman". Archive Org. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

Further reading
  • Lewis Patton (ed.) The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2: The Watchman, Bollingen series: 75, 1970. ISBN 978-0-691-09719-0
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