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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

A selective list of literary criticism for the British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites.

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Literary Criticism

Barbarese, J.T. "Dramas of Naming in Coleridge." Studies in English Literature (1997).

Brown, Eric C. "Boyd's Dante, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, and the Pattern of Infernal Influence." Studies in English Literature (1998) [Dante's Divine Comedy, trans. by Rev Henry Boyd (1802)].

Burgoyne, Daniel. "Coleridge's 'Poetic Faith' and Poe's Scientific Hoax." Romanticism on the Net 21 (2001) [Edgar Allan Poe].

Burwick, Frederick. "Coleridge's Art of Translation." Wordsworth Circle (2007).

Caldwell, Lauren. "Truncating Coleridgean Conversation and the Re-visioning of 'Dover Beach.'" Victorian Poetry (2007).

Canuel, Mark. "Coleridge, Shelley and the Aesthetics of Correction." Wordsworth Circle (2002) [Percy Bysshe Shelley].

Fulford, Tim. "Mary Robinson and the Abyssinian Maid: Coleridge's Muses and Feminist Criticism." Romanticism on the Net 13 (1999). Fulford considers gendered poetics and Coleridge.

Fusco, Kurt. "'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806." Romantic Circles, Romanticism and Ecology, Nov. 2001. On animal depictions in the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge that suggest alternative ideals of community for humans.

Graver, Bruce and Ronald Tetreault. "Editing Lyrical Ballads for the Electronic Environment." Romanticism on the Net 9 (1998).

Hessell, Nikki. "'Desultory Fragments' or 'Printed Works'? Coleridge's Changing Attitude to Newspaper Journalism." Papers on Language and Literature (2007).

Hillier, Russell M. Coleridge's Dilemma and the Method of "Sacred Sympathy": Atonement as Problem and Solution in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Papers on Language and Literature Winter 2009.

Hogsette, David S. "Eclipsed by the Pleasure Dome: Poetic Failure in Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan.'" Romanticism on the Net 5 (1997).

Johnston, Kenneth R. "Romantic Anti-Jacobins or Anti-Jacobin Romantics?" Romanticism on the Net 15 (1999). On Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Anti-Jacobin" and "Romantic" credentials.

Jones, Steven E. "'Supernatural, or at Least Romantic': The Ancient Mariner and Parody." Romanticism on the Net 15 (1999).

Kipperman, Mark. "Coleridge, Shelley, Davy, and Science's Millennium." [Percy Bysshe Shelley; Humphry Davy]. Criticism (1998).

Koenig-Woodyard, Chris. "A Hypertext History of the Transmission of Coleridge's 'Christabel,' 1800-1816." Romanticism on the Net 10 (1998).

- - -. "Sex-Text: 'Christabel' and the Christabelliads." Romanticism on the Net 15 (1999). On contemporary parodies of "Christabel."

Leadbetter, Gregory M. "Coleridge and the Languages of Paganism." Wordsworth Circle (2007).

Lefebure, Molly. "Consolations in Opium: the Expanding Universe of Coleridge, Humphrey Davy and The Recluse." Wordsworth Circle (2006).

Leinwand, Theodore. "Shakespeare, Coleridge, Intellecturition." Studies in Romanticism (2007) [Coleridge's criticism of William Shakespeare].

Levy, Michelle. "Discovery and the Domestic Affections in Coleridge and Shelley." Studies in English Literature (2004) [gothic fiction; tales of the exotic; Percy Bysshe Shelley].

Magnuson, Paul. "Coleridge's Discursive 'Monody on the Death of Chatterton.'" Romanticism on the Net 17 (2000). The poem as an example of the instability of textual origins.

Mahoney, Charles. "The Multeity of Coleridgean Apostasy." Romantic Circles, Irony and Clerisy (1999).

Malachuk, Daniel. "Labor, Leisure, and the Yeoman in Coleridge's and Wordsworth's 1790s Writings." Romanticism on the Net 27 (2002).

Miall, David S. "Coleridge 'Frost at Midnight.'" Professor's web site.

Milnes, Tim. "Through the Looking-Glass: Coleridge and Post-Kantian Philosophy." Comparative Literature (1999). Milnes contends that "while in Germany the role of the professional philosopher had been energized by the task of working through the implications of Kant's 'Copernican revolution,' in England the withering of the philosophical appetite after Hume's dismantling of knowledge meant that the task of constructing an ideology of a post-revolutionary culture, whether social or metaphysical, fell largely to poets, essayists and journalists." [Immanuel Kant; David Hume].

Mulvihill, James. "'Like a Lady of a Far Countrée': Coleridge's 'Christabel' and Fear of Invasion." Papers on Language and Literature (2008).

Paley, Morton D. "Coleridge, Scott, and 'this Mescolanza of Measures.'" Wordsworth Circle (2007) [and Sir Walter Scott] (removed).

- - -. "Coleridge and Washington Allston's 'The Sisters.'" Wordsworth Circle (2005) [painting by Washington Allston].

Perry, Seamus. "Coleridge, the Return to Nature, and the New Anti-Romanticism: An Essay in Polemic." Romanticism on the Net 4 (1996).

Priestman, Martin. "Temples and Mysteries in Romantic Infidel Writing." Romanticism on the Net 25 (2002).

Reid, Nicholas. "Coleridge, Language, and Imagination." Romanticism on the Net 22 (2001).

- - -. "Form in Coleridge, and in Perception and Art More Generally." Romanticism on the Net 26 (2002).

- - -. "'That Eternal Language,' or Why Coleridge was Right About Imaging and Meaning." Romanticism on the Net 28 (2002).

Robinson, Daniel "'Work Without Hope': Anxiety and Embarrassment in Coleridge's Sonnets." Studies in Romanticism (2000).

Roman, Laura. A review of Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge and the High Romantic Argument," by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts. Romanticism on the Net 20 (2000) [Thomas De Quincy].

Rzepka, Charles J. "Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows: Romantic Passions, the Sublime, and Mesmerism." Romantic Circles, Romantic Passions, April 1998.

Scott, Matthew. "The Circulation of Romantic Creativity: Coleridge, Drama, and the Question of Translation." Romanticism on the Net 2 (1996).

Shaffer, E.S. "Ideologies in Readings of the Late Coleridge: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit." Romanticism on the Net 17 (2000).

Simons, Thomas R. "Coleridge Beyond Kant and Hegel: Transcendent Aesthetics and the Dialectic Pentad." Studies in Romanticism (2006) [Immanuel Kant; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel].

Smith, Christopher. "Southey and the Emergence of Lyrical Ballads." Romanticism on the Net 9 (1998) [Robert Southey].

Stelzig, Eugene. "'Spirit Divine! With Thee I'll Wander': Mary Robinson and Coleridge in Poetic Dialogue." Wordsworth Circle (2004).

Taylor, Anya. "Coleridge's 'Christabel' and the Phantom Soul." Studies in English Literature (2002).

- - -. "Filling the Blanks: Coleridge and the Inscrutable Female Subject." Wordsworth Circle (2002).

Weinberg, Alan. "'Yet in its Depth What Treasures': Shelley's Transforming Intellect and the Paradoxical Example of Coleridge." Romanticism on the Net 22 (2001) [Percy Bysshe Shelley].

Wilson, Eric G. "Polar Apocalypse in Coleridge and Poe." Wordsworth Circle (2004) [Edgar Allan Poe].

Wilson, Paul Scott. "Coherence in Biographia Literaria: God, Self, and Coleridge's 'Seminal Principle.'" Philological Quarterly (1993).

Reviews

Brewer, Kenneth Larry. A review of Coleridge's Later Poetry, by Morton D. Paley; and of Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity: 1774-1830, by Andrea K. Henderson. Romanticism on the Net.

Corbett, R. A review of Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, by Peter Kitson, ed. Romanticism on the Net, [Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats].

Felluga, Dino. A review of The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800, by Richard E. Matlak. Romanticism on the Net.

Halmi, Nicholas. A review of Coleridge on Dreaming, by Jennifer Ford. Romanticism on the Net 18 (2000).

- - -. A review of "The Norton Critical Edition of Coleridge's Poetry and Prose," a new edition aimed at students. Romanticism on the Net 19 (2000).

Kooy, Michael John. A review of The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Rosemary Ashton. Romanticism on the Net.

Laplace-Sinatra, Michael. A review of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Romantic Autobiography: Reading Strategies of Self-representation, by Sheila M. Kearns. Romanticism on the Net.

O'Donnell, Brennan. A review of Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge, by J. Douglas Kneale. Romanticism on the Net 18 (2000).

Perkins, Mary. A review of Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism, by David Vallins. Romanticism on the Net 18 (2000).

Reid, Nicholas. A review of The Challenge of Coleridge, by David Haney. Romanticism on the Net 29 (2003).

- - -. A review of The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, by Lucy Newlyn, ed. Romanticism on the Net 36-37 (2004-2005).

Sandy, Mark. A review of Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage, by Matthew Gibson. Romanticism on the Net 32-33 (2003-2004).

Vickers, Neil. A review of Coleridge's Progress to Christianity: Experience and Authority in Religious Faith, by Ronald C. Wendling. Romanticism on the Net 14 (1999).

Introduction & Lighter Reading

Perry, Seamus. "Samuel Taylor Coleridge." Literary Encyclopedia. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd. An introduction to Coleridge, from a database that provides signed literary criticism by experts in their field, and is available to individuals for a reasonably-priced subscription.

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge." A brief article from the Academy of American Poets.

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge." Gale.

Ballantyne, John. "Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Conservatism's radical prophet."(Australian) News Weekly 19 June, 2004. An essay on the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's political ideas.

Web Sites, Bibliography, Texts

Romanticism on the Net. Ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra. An international, peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies, an impressive scholarly enterprise that has been making essays freely available since 1996.

Romantic Circles. Eds. Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, and Carl Stahmer. "A refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture." An innovative publication on topics in Romanticism.

The Wordworth Circle. Ed. Marilyn Gaull. Information about subscribing.

"A Romantic Natural History." Ed. Ashton Nichols. The relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin, with articles on Coleridge and other Romantics.

Tetreault, Ronald and Bruce Graver. The Lyrical Ballads Bicenterary Project, 1998. Ed. Ronald Tetreault and Bruce Graver. Electronic texts from the books, which have been transcribed and encoded using sgml, supplemented with images of the printed pages of the first edition.

The Samuel T. Coleridge web site. Ed. Marjorie A. Tiefert. Links to many Coleridge texts, including "The Æolian Harp," 1795; "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," 1797; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1797; "Christabel," 1797; from "France: An Ode," 1798; "Frost at Midnight," 1798; "Kubla Khan," 1798; "Fears in Solitude," 1798; "Dejection: An Ode," 1802; "To William Wordsworth,"1807; "Work Without Hope," 1825. Also, his literary theory and criticism; political commentary and journalism; writing on science, philosophy, theology, psychology; and his letters.

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