Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life

✍ Scribed by William Christie

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Series: Literary Lives
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This literary life of the best-loved of all the major Romantic writers uses Coleridge's own Biographia Literaria as its starting point and destination. The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's major statement to an embattled literary culture in which he sought to define and defend, not just his own, but all imaginative life. This book offers a reading of Coleridge and his life in the context of that culture and the institutions that comprised it, and is a 'must-read' for any student or scholar of Coleridge.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
Chronology......Page 15
Prologue: Literary Life, 1815......Page 20
1 'The Discipline of His Taste at School': Christ's Hospital and Cambridge......Page 33
2 'The Progress of His Opinions in Religion and Politics': The Radical Years......Page 54
3 'A Known and Familiar Landscape': Conversations......Page 78
4 'The Poet, Described in Ideal Perfection': Annus Mirabilis......Page 104
5 'The Toil of Thinking': Private Notes and Public Newspapers......Page 135
6 'To Rust Away': The Lost Years 1800–6......Page 158
7 'The One Proteus of the Fire and the Flood': Critic for Hire......Page 184
8 'To Preserve the Soul Steady': The Sage of Highgate......Page 207
Epilogue......Page 231
Notes......Page 234
Further Reading......Page 251
B......Page 257
C......Page 258
D......Page 261
G......Page 262
H......Page 263
L......Page 264
M......Page 265
P......Page 266
S......Page 267
W......Page 268