A comprehensive survey of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's writings as a poet and literary critic, as a philosopher and lecturer, as a commentator on religion and politics. Provides 37 specially written contributions by an international team of experts providing the most advanced scholarship in each area.

Frederick Burwick, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, is author and editor of twenty four books and over a hundred articles. He is editor of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria: Text and Meaning (1989), and more recently, with James McKusick, Faustus, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the German of Goethe (OUP, 2007). His Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination (1996) won the Barricelli Book of the Year Award of the International Conference on Romanticism. He has been named Distinguished Scholar by both the British Academy (1992) and the Keats-Shelley Association (1998).

• List of Contributors


• Introduction


• Biography


• 1: Nicholas Roe: Coleridge's Early Years


• 2: Richard Gravil: Coleridge and Wordsworth: Collaboration and Criticism from Salisbury Plain to Aids to Reflection


• 3: John David Lopez: Coleridge's Publisher and Patron: Cottle and Poole


• 4: Neil Vickers: Coleridge's Marriage and Family


• 5: Tilar Mazzeo: Coleridge's Travels


• 6: Anya Taylor: Coleridge's Self-representation


• The Prose Works


• 7: Peter Kitson: Coleridge's Lectures 1795: On Politics and Religion


• 8: Michael John Kooy: Coleridge as Editor: The Watchman, The Friend


• 9: Angela Esterhammer: Coleridge in the Periodicals


• 10: Matthew Scott: Coleridge's Lectures: Lectures 1808-1819: On Literature


• 11: Raimonda Modiano: Coleridge as Literary Critic: Principles of Genial Criticism, Biographia Literaria


• 12: Pamela Edwards: Coleridge on Politics and Religion: Lay Sermons, Statesman's Manual, Aids to Reflection; On the Constitution of Church and State


• 13: Jeffrey Hipolito: Coleridge's Lectures: Lectures 1818-1819: On the History of Philosophy


• 14: H. J. Jackson: Coleridge as Reader: Marginalia


• 15: Paul Cheshire: Coleridge's Notebooks


• 16: David Vallins: Coleridge as Talker: Sage of Highgate, Table Talk


• 17: Murray Evans: Coleridge as Thinker: Logic and Opus Maximum


• The Poetic Works


• 18: Nicolas Halmi: Coleridge on Allegory and Symbol


• 19: David Fairer: Coleridge's Early Poetry, 1790-1796


• 20: Michael O'Neill: Coleridge's Genres


• 21: George Erving: Coleridge as Playwright


• 22: Frederick Burwick: Coleridge as Translator


• Sources and Influences


• 23: Andrew Keanie: Coleridge and Plagiarism


• 24: Anthony Harding: Coleridge, Biblical and Classical Literature


• 25: Douglas Hedley: Coleridge and Theology


• 26: Charles Mahoney: Coleridge and Shakespeare


• 27: Christopher R. Miller: Coleridge and the English Poetic Tradition


• 28: Matthew Scott: Coleridge and European Literature


• 29: Elinor Shaffer: Coleridge's Dialogues with German Thought


• 30: James C. McKusick: Coleridge and Language Theory


• 31: Christoph Bode: Coleridge and Philosophy


• 32: Julian Knox: Coleridge and the Arts


• 33: Eric Wilson: Coleridge and Science


• Reception


• 34: Seamus Perry: Coleridge's Literary Influence


• 35: Morton Paley: Coleridge's Early Biographers


• 36: Elinor Shaffer: Coleridge Criticism in Continental Europe


• 37: Robert Maniquis: Writing about Coleridge