VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. ISBN NO. 0-8229-1114-0. COLERIDGE REMAINS AN ELUSIVE FIGURE IN ENGLISH LIERARY AND CULTURAL HISTORY ATTRACTIVE SELF-DISTANCING SYMPATHETIC AND BAFFLING BY TURNS. TO COMMEMORATE THE BICENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH A NUMBER OF SCHOLARS WELL KNOWN IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FIELDS WERE INVITED TO LECTURE ON HIS WORK AT CAMBRIDGE. THE RESULTING STUDIES ALONG WITH ONE OR TWO BASED ON LECTURES GIVEN ELSEWHERE PRESENT AN UNUSUALLY COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF HIS MIND AND IMAGINATION.
FIRST EDITION FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAP. LONG CELEBRATED AS A GREAT AESTHETIC IDEALIST AND CHAMPION OF THE IMAGINATION COLERIDGE IS NOW BEGINNING TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS A LITERARY CRITIC WITH MANY OTHER DIMENSIONS WITH EXCITING AND FAR-REACHING INSIGHTS INTO LANGUAGE AND WITH DETAILED NOTIONS ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORICAL AND LINGUISTIC DEMANDS OF THE LITERARY EXPERIENCE.
FIRST EDITION FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAP. THIS VOLUME OF LETTERS – THE VAST MAJORITY OF WHICH ARE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED – PRESENTS A REMARKABLE OFTEN MOVING AND EXTRAORINARY IMAGE OF THE COLERIDGE FAMILY DURING SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE`S YOUTH PARTICULARLY BETWEEN 1772 AND 1793 WHEN THE WRITER REACHED TWENTY-ONE.
