01781nam a22002177a 4500020001800000041000900018082001700027100002700044245007700071260005000148300001600198504003700214520090300251546001301154650008401167650006601251650005901317650005501376650006801431650006401499  a9780521746434  aeng-  a821.7bWOR-C  aWorthen, Johneauthor.  aThe Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge /cBy John Worthen  aNew York:bCambridge University Press,c2010.  axiii, 148p.  aIncludes bibliography and index.  aAuthor of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', ‘Kubla Khan' and ‘Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative introduction discusses his interest in language and his extraordinary private notebooks, as well as his poems, his literary criticism and his biography. John Worthen presents a range of readings of Coleridge's work, along with biographical context and historical background. Discussion of Coleridge's notebooks alongside his poems illuminates this rich material and finds it a way into his creativity. Readers are invited to see Coleridge as an immensely self-aware, witty and charismatic writer who, although damaged by an opium habit, responded to and in his turn influenced the literary, political, religious and scientific thinking of his time.  aEnglish.  aColeridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834vCriticism and interpretationxPoetic works  aRomanticismvEnglish poetryxHistorical and literary analysis  aEnglish poetryvHistory and criticismxRomantic period  aPoets, EnglishvBiographyxSamuel Taylor Coleridge  aImagination in literaturevStudiesxColeridge’s contributions  aPhilosophy in literaturevAnalysisxColeridge’s influence