The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Martin Garrett, "The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge "
English | ISBN: 3031155718 | 2022 | 228 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This volume explores 'the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge' (Virginia Woolf): his poems and prose, their sources, interpretation and reception; his life, troubled marriage and fatherhood, conversation, changing intellectual contexts and legacy. Major entries cover such canonical works as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, 'Kubla Khan', the 'conversation poems' and Biographia Literaria. But a fuller understanding of Coleridge must embrace many lesser-known poems - lyrics, satire, comical squibs. The prose - critical, philosophical, political, religious - ranges from his early radical writings to the more conservative