Coleridge, 1772-1804 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Holmes
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1772-1804
- Setting: Great Britain and Germany
- Principal Characters: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Thomas Poole, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Philosophy or philosophers, Mythology or myths, Politics, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Literature, Science or scientists, Religion, Friendship, Poetry or poets, Substance abuse, England or English people, Criticism, Drug addiction or addicts, Lectures or lecturing, Mysticism, Romanticism, Opium
- Locales: Germany, Great Britain
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most fascinating figures in the intellectual history of England. He was a man of great and varied genius: He gave to English literature half a dozen of the finest poems in the language, he was a literary critic whose lectures on Shakespeare still provide starting points for discussion of the plays, and he developed theories of the origins of creativity that have proved endlessly stimulating for generations of writers and scholars. Later in his life he emerged as a speculative religious thinker who had a seminal influence on many of the great minds...
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