Coleridge, 1804-1834 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Holmes
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1804-1834
- Setting: Malta and England
- Principal Characters: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hartley Coleridge, Sir Alexander Ball, William Wordsworth, Sara Hutchinson, James Gillman
- 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: England, Malta
The leading writers of the second generation of English Romantics—George Gordon, Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats—died at the peak of their careers. The major figures of the first generation of English Romantics were not so fortunate. William Wordsworth sank into respectability and unmemorable verse, and Coleridge descended further still. In the “Postscript” to the first volume of his Coleridge biography, Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 (1989), Richard Holmes observes that had Coleridge died in 1804, as many expected he would, his reputation would have...
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