Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Literary Life

W. Christie, Kenneth A. Loparo

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• ISBN:
  9780230627857
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's major statement to a literary culture in which he sought to define and defend all imaginative life. This book offers a reading of Coleridge in the context of that culture and the institutions that comprised it.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Chronology
• Prologue Literary Life, 1815
• 1. ‘The Discipline of His Taste at School’: Christ’s Hospital and Cambridge
• 2. ‘The Progress of His Opinions in Religion and Politics’: The Radical Years
• 3. ‘A Known and Familiar Landscape’: Conversations
• 4 ‘The Poet, Described in Ideal Perfection’: Annus Mirabilis
• 5. ‘The Toil of Thinking’: Private Notes and Public Newspapers
• 6. ‘To Rust Away’: The Lost Years 1800-6
• 7. ‘The One Proteus of the Fire and the Flood’: Critic for Hire
• 8. ‘To Preserve the Soul Steady’: The Sage of Highgate
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Index