Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb.
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There is also a generous sample of his letters, notebooks, and marginalia, some recently discovered, which show a different, more spontaneous side to his fascinating and complex personality.
It provides a vital background for both the poetry section which precedes it and for the shorter prose Works which follow.
The central section of the book is devoted to his most significant critical work, Biographia Literaria , and reproduces it in full.
This collection represents the best of Coleridge\'s poetry from every period of his life, particularly his prolific early years, which produced The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Christabel , and Kubla Khan .
He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English thought.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb
