TY  - BOOK
AU  - Worthen, John
TI  - The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SN  - 9780521746434
U1  - 821.7 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Poetic works
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Historical and literary analysis
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Romantic period
KW  - Poets, English
KW  - Biography
KW  - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
KW  - Imagination in literature
KW  - Studies
KW  - Coleridge’s contributions
KW  - Philosophy in literature
KW  - Analysis
KW  - Coleridge’s influence
N1  - Includes bibliography and index
N2  - 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
ER  -