A Moral Idiocy, an Imbecility of the Will, a Haunting, an Emptiness, a Posthumous State, a Writing Block
Susan Eilenberg, 19 June 1997
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by Rosemary Ashton.
Blackwell, 480 pp., £25, December 1996,0 631 18746 4 Show More
by Rosemary Ashton.
Blackwell, 480 pp., £25, December 1996,
Coleridge: Selected Poems
edited by Richard Holmes.
HarperCollins, 358 pp., £20, March 1996,0 00 255579 4 Show More
edited by Richard Holmes.
HarperCollins, 358 pp., £20, March 1996,
A Choice of Coleridge’s Verse
edited by Ted Hughes.
Faber, 232 pp., £7.99, March 1996,0 571 17604 6 Show More
edited by Ted Hughes.
Faber, 232 pp., £7.99, March 1996,
“... the serene ideal that begins to dim in Coleridge’s surrender before Wordsworth’s greater powers: In silence listening, like a devout child, My soul lay passive, by thy various strain Driven as in surges now beneath the stars, With momentary stars of my own birth, Fair constellated foam, still darting off Into the darkness; now a tranquil ... ”