Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection

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Oxford University Press, 2002 - 264 pages
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language, and co-author, with Wordsworth, of Lyrical Ballads; one of England's greatest critics and theorists of literatureand imagination; as well as autobiographer, nature-writer, philosopher, theologian, psychologist and distinguished speaker. Throughout his life, he confided his thoughts and emotions to his notebooks, where we can still see his speculations and observations taking shape. This edition presents aselection from this unique work, newly presented, with notes and commentary, for the student as well as the general reader.

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Contents

1 The West Country 17941798
1
2 Germany London the Lakes 17981804
11
3 London Malta Italy 18041806
56
4 The Lakes London 18061810
93
5 London Wiltshire 18101816
120
Highgate 18161820
128
Commentary
134
Index
258
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Seamus Perry is Fellow and Tutor, Balliol College, and a lecturer in the English Faculty of the University of Oxford. He is the author of Coleridge and the Uses of Division (OUP 1999), Coleridge: Interviews and Recollections (Palgrave 2000), and, with Nicola Trott, is editor of 1800: The New Lyrical Ballads (Palgrave 2001).

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