Publication
Date:
2002
Binding: Paperback
No. of Pages: 135
Coleridge has a special place in literature: apparently failing his
incredible poetic and critical gifts, he produced also some of the
most beautiful lyrics of the Romantic period and Biographia Literaria
– an account of Romanticism. His literary criticism analysed
Shakespeare’s work in a way that has shaped Shakespearean studies
ever since.
A sympathetic account of Coleridge’s troubled life – his
difficult marriage, his addiction to opium and his famed ‘inefficiency’
– this Student Guide draws attention to the vast endeavour of
his intellectual and artistic work, enabling the reader to get to
grips with this most beguiling and paradoxical figure.
Andrew Keanie is a researcher at the University of Ulster, as well
as being an academic, he is a poet and musician, and is author of
Wordsworth in this Greenwich Exchange Student Guide series.
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