Worthen, John creator author. text New York Cambridge University Press 2010 monographic eng - xiii, 148p. Author 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. By John Worthen Includes bibliography and index. English. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 Criticism and interpretation Poetic works Romanticism English poetry Historical and literary analysis English poetry History and criticism Romantic period Poets, English Biography Samuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination in literature Studies Coleridge’s contributions Philosophy in literature Analysis Coleridge’s influence 821.7 WOR-C 9780521746434