Books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Here Coleridge rejects passivity, inherited from an eighteenth-century philosophical tradition. He wants to put forward an innate, divine creativity informing not just works of art but all our perceptions.” Read more...
“The idea in Coleridge’s poetry—that you might find in the death of your imagination a way of writing imaginatively—is an astonishing discovery for twentieth-century poetry.” Read more...
“The Notebooks are Coleridge’s masterpiece. They’re an opportunity for him to exercise or to demonstrate his genius without any of the obligation to finish things.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge were recommended
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Lyrical Ballads
by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Gustave Doré -
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The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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Biographia Literaria
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Best Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books, recommended by Seamus Perry
The Best Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books, recommended by Seamus Perry
The reputation of Romantic poet, critic and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge has long been overshadowed by William Wordsworth, his friend and Lyrical Ballads co-author. Oxford professor Seamus Perry talks us through the books that showcase Coleridge’s idiosyncratic brilliance.
