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Coleridge began in 1795 a series of public lectures. This volume includes all the printed and manuscript versions of the Bristol lectures in chronological sequence. Among the contents are "Lectures on Revealed Religion, Its Corruption, and Its Political Views" and "Lecture on the Slave-Trade." ... Read more

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Accept, as a small testimony of my grateful attachment, the following Dramatic Poem, in which I have endeavoured to detail, in an interesting form, the fall of a man, whose great bad actions have cast a disastrous lustre on his name. In the execution of the work, as intricacy of plot could not have been attempted without a gross violation of recent facts, it has been my sole aim to imitate the empassioned and highly figurative language of the French orators, and to develope the characters of the chief actors on a vast stage of horrors. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Founded on the Author's Latest Edition of 1834 With Many Additional Pieces Now First Included and With a Collection of Various Readings; Volume: 1; Original Published by: Macmillan and Co. in 1880 in 350 pages; Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; ... Read more

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Coleridge: Poems (HighBridge Classics)
Severalactors read of many of S. T. Coleridge's best-known poems. A narrator summarizes Coleridge's life and introduces his poems in chronological order. The two cassette tapes include all the major poems (a few of the longer ones such as Christabel as excerpts), plus several minor poems that illuminate significant events in his life. The only downside is this -- although the HighBridge Company produced an outstanding package that introduces Coleridge's life and poetry, they unfortunatelyneglected to include liner notes. For instance, one has no way of finding out the names of the narrator and the actors reading the poems. The readers are very good. After listening to these outstanding readings, I gained a new appreciation of Coleridge's poetry. Highly recommended. ... Read more

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The purpose of this series is to promote the study of writing in the English language through the introduction of the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. They provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. Samuel Taylor Coleridge has a special place in literature. Intrigued by metaphysics and science, he also produced some of the most beautiful lyrics of the Romantic period. So sweeping was his need to know - everything - he is often accused by his critics of losing sight of the particular, or failing his incredible poetic and critical gifts. Even so, Coleridge produced the "Biographia Literaria" - a key text in understanding Romanticism. His criticism of Shakespeare's work has founded modern Shakespearean studies. A sympathetic account of Coleridge's troubled life - his difficult marriage, his addiction to opium and his famed "inefficiency" - this student guide draws attention to the vast endeavour of his intellectual and artistic work, enabling the reader to understand this most beguiling and paradoxical figure. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Printed for private circulation in 1903 in 170 pages; Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes; ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Attempts to separate fact from conjecture in estimating the real nature of the influence of German literature upon Coleridge.

THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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His Brother’s Keeperexplores the mystery of what drove suicidally depressed Samuel Taylor Coleridge to drop out of college, assume a fictitious identity and enlist in the armyto atone for a crime he never committed. Four years later, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the poet once again relived the nightmare of his undeserved guilt, this time creating a world-renowned poem in the process.This book is a psychologicalstudy of survivor guilt and of the idealistic, troubled partnershipbetweenColeridge andWilliam Wordsworth. An in-depth exploration of Coleridge’s life and art which reads like a novel, it offers insights into the creative process anda clinical examinationofthe poet’saddiction. Hooked on opium by the age of 30, hedestroyed his marriage, his friendships and hiscreative imagination. His final, hollow years werespent livingon his laurelsas the writer ofseveral of the most famous poems in the English language. ... Read more

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Coleridge on the Couch
Review of: His Brother's Keeper: A Psycho-biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By Stephen M. Weissman
(FROM BOOK WORLD, WASHINGTON POST FEBRUARY .4, 1990)

ReviewedBy JamesEngell (Coleridge Scholar and Professor of English at Harvard University)

OCTOBER 4 meant so much. On that date in 1781, Coleridge's clergyman father suddenly died after having seen off an older son, Frank, to naval service. Coleridge was 8. And Frank himself would never return, a victim of fever and suicide in India 12 years later. At 7, Samuel had quarreled with Frank and came at his brother violently with a knife, ostensibly over some cheese. But the deeper cause was a constitutional difference (he was dreamy and bookish, Frank dashing and military-like), troubled by competition for love of two women, their mother and nurse Molly. Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads was first published on Sept. 18, 1798, then transferred to another firm that issued it on Oct. 4. In 1800 Coleridge arranged to read to Wordsworth his unfinished "Christabel" -- on Oct. 4. It was set for the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads. But Wordsworth was not pleased, told Coleridge, and had the printer strike the poem. Wordsworth and Mary Hutchinson married on Oct. 4, 1802. And one more anniversary fell then. Coleridge's own union to Sarah Fricker began Oct. 4, 1795.

Stephen Weissman's psychobiography of Coleridge convincingly analyzes the significance of this date, as well as many other elements in Coleridge's tangled personal relationships. The imprinting and formation of those psychic archetypes that shape life from childhood enter the narrative of his career repeatedly, including the flux of his creating energy and themes in his best-known verse. We receive a fine portrait of the painful, notoriously crossed inner life of a genius with stunning capacities for poetry, criticism, metaphysics and intellectual conversation, but also for self-delusion, remorse, dependence, reined-in envy and depression.

His Brother's Keeper acutely describes Coleridge's personal relations with Wordsworth -- ranging from worship ("the latch of whose shoe I am unworthy to unloose") to proud anger vented in private notebooks. Weissman establishes Coleridge's first heavy, addictive opium use in late 1800, when Wordsworth's friendship grew strained.

With narrative and psychological skill, and relying on Coleridge's letters and notebooks including records of his own dreams, Weissman also charts Coleridge's penchant for romantic foursomes -- himself, a friend and two sisters: Robert Allen and the Evans sisters at Christ's Hospital school, Southey and the Frickers after Cambridge, Wordsworth and the Hutchinsons, John Morgan and the Brents. The Malta voyage (1804-06) becomes a test when Coleridge tries to kick the laudanum habit (opium in alcohol) and first calls on a personal God's suffering Son, rather than a man of strong will such as Southey or Wordsworth, as a support and redeemer. A complex, sad picture of Coleridge's marriage emerges, including a careful sketch of Coleridge as father, particularly in dealings with, and on behalf of, his son Hartley.

Weissman makes no excuse for Coleridge's weaknesses. He was frequently self-deluding and neurotic, which gives added dimension to the plea in Biographia Literaria for "Know thyself" as the highest philosophic insight. Weissman's approach aims to elucidate "The Wanderings of Cain," "Dejection" and "Christabel," which he decipers as Christ Abel. "Osorio," an early play, receives suggestive treatment. Where Weissman identifies works that register Coleridge's "personal unconscious myth," he reveals underlying psychic patterns. Above all, he sees submerged themes of the loss or murder of a brother, guilt at one's own survival and attraction to a brother substitute.

Weissman argues that the Ancient Mariner would become part of Coleridge's own self-image: "Was Coleridge adopting the myth of his character as part of his unconscious sense of identity as he made the transition into midlife?" In less guarded moments, he summarizes too quickly and naively to preserve the nuance he shows elsewhere: " 'Kubla Khan' expressed Coleridge's bisexuality, 'Christabel' told the tale of his love for William Wordsworth, and 'The Pains of Sleep' confessed his opium addiction." Some phrases seem oddly inappropriate to the generally high level of analysis. Coleridge is "pickled in laudanum from his gizzard to his zatch." But the touch of reductionism -- such a pitfall for psychobiography of creative talent -- infects Weissman's analysis rarely and his literary criticism only in short stretches. While showing how the poems might be read against Coleridge's unconscious, he reminds us that reading them that way is neither a definitive nor exclusive interpretation. Parts of this book hit like shafts of light, others -- especially where direct criticism of the writing is concerned -- are more limited and controversial. While Weissman appreciates Coleridge the poet and understands his psyche with unprecedented insight, he does not address (nor claim to address) Coleridge's intellectual career generally. The more we have of Coleridge's writing, some now being published for the first time, the more we justly regard him as important in religion and theology, political theory, psychology, cultural life, language study and aesthetics.

While this book articulates the private myths that helped both fuel and thwart Coleridge's genial spirits, especially in personal relations up to 1810, it does not measure the scope of Coleridge's myriad-minded achievement. No new sense is gained of the varied mass of Coleridge's prose writings. Criticism of the poetry is plausible but limited to psychobiographical perspectives. Discussion of his religious odyssey does not plumb -- it barely recognizes -- his central anticipations of theology of the last 150 years.

Yet, if His Brother's Keeper is not a full-length portrait and must be read with other studies (for example, by Barfield, Bate, Chambers, Holmes, Magnuson and Willey), and alongside other criticism of Coleridge's writing, it should also be concluded that His Brother's Keeper must be read.

James Engell, professor of English at Harvard, is author of "The Creative Imagination" and co-editor of Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria. ... Read more

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This edition of the Lay Sermons contains The Statesman's Manual and A Lay Sermon, printed from their original editions. In his introduction R. J. White presents the personal and political background of the Lay Sermons and recounts their reception. ... Read more