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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2012
Print publication year:
2010
Online ISBN:
9780511778841

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Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative introduction discusses his interest in language and his extraordinary private notebooks, as well as his poems, his literary criticism and his biography. John Worthen presents a range of readings of Coleridge's work, along with biographical context and historical background. Discussion of Coleridge's notebooks alongside his poems illuminates this rich material and finds it a way into his creativity. Readers are invited to see Coleridge as an immensely self-aware, witty and charismatic writer who, although damaged by an opium habit, responded to and in his turn influenced the literary, political, religious and scientific thinking of his time.

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"...concise and written with verve...provides a lively introduction to the sheer breadth of Coleridge's prose--to the wit and energy, and the gnomic particularities which will fascinate the reader."
-Nicholas Reid, NBOL 19

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Contents

Further reading
General reading
Bate, Walter Jackson, Coleridge (New York: Macmillan Company, 1968)
Beer, John, ‘Coleridge's Afterlife’, The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, ed. Newlyn, Lucy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 231–44
Dekker, George, Coleridge and the Literature of Sensibility (London: Vision Press, 1978)
Fruman, Norman, ‘Coleridge's Rejection of Nature and the Natural Man’, Coleridge's Imagination: Essays in Memory of Pete Laver, ed. Gravil, Richard, Newlyn, Lucy and Roe, Nicholas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 69–78
Harding, Anthony John, Coleridge and the Idea of Love: Aspects of Relationship in Coleridge's Thought and Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975)
Levere, Trevor H., Poetry Realized in Nature: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early Nineteenth-Century Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)
McFarland, Thomas, ‘Coleridge's Anxiety’, Coleridge's Variety: Bicentenary Studies, ed. Beer, John (London: Macmillan, 1974), pp. 134–65
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776–1832, ed. Iain, McCalman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Perry, Seamus, Coleridge and the Uses of Division (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999)
Vickers, Neil, ‘Coleridge's Abstract Researches’, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life, ed. Roe, Nicholas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 155–74
Wilson, Eric G., ‘Coleridge and Science’, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Burwick, Frederick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 640–58
Biography
Ashton, Rosemary, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)
Beer, John, ‘How Shall We Write the Life of Coleridge?’, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life, ed. Roe, Nicholas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 315–29
Holmes, Richard, Coleridge: Early Visions (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989)
Holmes, Richard, Coleridge: Darker Reflections (London: HarperCollins, 1998)
Roe, Nicholas, Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988)
Vickers, Neil, ‘Coleridge's Marriage and Family’, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Burwick, Frederick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 68–88
Worthen, John, The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001)
Language
Barfield, Owen, ‘Coleridge's Enjoyment of Words’, Coleridge's Variety: Bicentenary Studies, ed. Beer, John (London: Macmillan, 1974), pp. 204–18
Coleridge's Writings: Volume 3: On Language, ed. Goodson, A. C. (Houndmills: Macmillan 1998)
McKusick, James C., Coleridge's Philosophy of Language (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986)
Notebooks
Cheshire, Paul, ‘Coleridge's Notebooks’, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Burwick, Frederick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 288–306
Coburn, Kathleen, Experience into Thought: Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1979)
Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection, ed. Perry, Seamus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Ruddick, William, ‘“As much diversity as the heart that trembles”: Coleridge's Notes on the Lakeland Fells’, Coleridge's Imagination: Essays in Memory of Pete Laver, ed. Gravil, Richard, Newlyn, Lucy and Roe, Nicholas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 88–101
Poetry
Ebbatson, J. B., ‘Coleridge's Mariner and the Rights of Man’, Studies in Romanticism, 11 (1972), 171–206
Empson, William, ‘“The Ancient Mariner”’, Critical Quarterly, 6 (1964), 298–319
Everest, Kelvin, Coleridge's Secret Ministry: The Context of the Conversation Poems 1795–1798 (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1979)
Fulford, Tim, ‘Slavery and Superstition in the Supernatural Poems’, The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, ed. Lucy Newlyn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 45–58
Gravil, Richard, ‘Coleridge and Wordsworth: Collaboration and Criticism from Salisbury Plain to Aids to Reflection’, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Burwick, Frederick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 24–48
Lowes, John Livingston, The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination (1927; 2nd edn, London: Constable, 1951)
Miller, Christopher R., ‘Coleridge and the English Poetic Tradition’, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Burwick, Frederick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 515–33
O'Neill, Michael, ‘Coleridge's Genres’, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Burwick, Frederick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 375–91
Perkins, David, ‘The Ancient Mariner and Its Interpreters: Some Versions of Coleridge’, Modern Language Quarterly, 57 (1996), 425–48
Richardson, Alan, ‘Coleridge and the Dream of an Embodied Mind’, Romanticism, 5.1 (1999), 1–25
Ware, Malcolm, ‘Coleridge's “Spectre-Bark”: A Slave Ship?’, Philological Quarterly, 40 (1961), 589–93
Religion and philosophy
Berkeley, Richard, Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Evans, Murray J., ‘Coleridge as Thinker: Logic, ed. J. R. de J. Jackson (1981) and Opus Maximum’, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Burwick, Frederick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 323–41
Hamilton, Paul, Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic (London: Continuum, 2007)
Hedley, Douglas, Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion: Aids to Reflection and the Mirror of the Spirit (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Orsini, G. N. G., Coleridge and German Idealism (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969)
Perkins, Mary Anne, ‘Religious Thinker’, The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, ed. Newlyn, Lucy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 187–99
Wordsworth, Jonathan, ‘The Infinite I AM: Coleridge and the Ascent of Being’, Coleridge's Imagination: Essays in Memory of Pete Laver, ed. Gravil, Richard, Newlyn, Lucy and Roe, Nicholas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 22–52

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