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 peer or editor 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, 1500-1900, Autumn, 1997.

Brown, Eric C. Boyd's Dante, Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner,' and the pattern of infernal influence. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Autumn, 1998.

Burgoyne, Daniel. "Coleridge's 'Poetic Faith' and Poe's Scientific Hoax." Romanticism On the Net 21 (February 2001).

Burwick, Frederick. Coleridge's art of translation.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a translator) Wordsworth Circle, Summer, 2007.

Caldwell, Lauren. Truncating Coleridgean conversation and the re-visioning of "Dover Beach." Victorian Poetry, Winter, 2007.

Canuel, Mark. Coleridge, Shelley and the aesthetics of correction. Wordsworth Circle, Wntr, 2002.

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

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

Harper, George McLean. Reprint of an older critical article, "Coleridge's Conversation Poems" from English Romantic Poets M.H. Abrams, ed. (1960).

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

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

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

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

Kipperman, Mark. Coleridge, Shelley, Davy, and science's millennium [Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Humphry Davy]. Criticism, Summer, 1998.

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

Koenig-Woodyard, Chris. "Sex-text: 'Christabel' and the Christabelliads." On contemporary parodies of "Christabel." Romanticism On the Net 15 (August 1999).

Leadbetter, Gregory M Coleridge and the languages of paganism. Wordsworth Circle, Summer, 2007.

Lefebure, Molly Consolations in opium: the expanding universe of Coleridge, Humphrey Davy and "The Recluse". Wordsworth Circle, Summer, 2006.

Leinwand, Theodore. "Shakespeare, Coleridge, intellecturition." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge's criticism of William Shakespeare). Studies in Romanticism, 22-MAR-07.

Levy, Michelle. Discovery and the domestic affections in Coleridge and Shelley. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Autumn, 2004.

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

Mahoney, Charles. "The Multeity of Coleridgean Apostasy." Romantic Circles edition on Irony and Clerisy, August 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. Notes and critical commentary on Coleridge's poem "Frost at Midnight," from Professor Miall, Univ. of Alberta.

Milnes, Tim. "Through the looking-glass: Coleridge and post-Kantian philosophy." 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." Comparative Literature, Fall 1999.

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

Paley, Morton D. Coleridge, Scott, and "this mescolanza of measures" [Sir Walter Scott]. Wordsworth Circle, 22-JUN-07.

Paley, Morton D. Coleridge and Washington Allston's The Sisters. Wordsworth Circle, Summer 2005.

Perry, Seamus. A substantial introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the Literary Encyclopedia.

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

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

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

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

Reid, Nicholas. "'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, Spring 2000.

Roman, Laura. "Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge and the High Romantic Argument." Romanticism On the Net, 20 (November 2000).

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

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

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

Simons, Thomas R. "Coleridge beyond Kant and Hegel: transcendent aesthetics and the Dialectic Pentad." Studies in Romanticism, 22-SEP-06.

Smith, Christopher. "Southey and the Emergence of Lyrical Ballads." Romanticism On the Net 9 (February 1998).

Stelzig, Eugene. "Spirit divine! With thee I'll wander": Mary Robinson and Coleridge in poetic dialogue. Wordsworth Circle, Summer 2004.

Taylor, Anya. Coleridge's "Christabel" and the Phantom Soul. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. Autumn 2002.

Taylor, Anya. Filling the blanks: Coleridge and the inscrutable female subject. Wordsworth Circle, Spring 2002.

Weinberg, Alan. "'Yet in its depth what treasures': Shelley's Transforming Intellect and the Paradoxical Example of Coleridge." Romanticism On the Net, 22 (May 2001).

Wilson, Eric G. Polar apocalypse in Coleridge and Poe. Wordsworth Circle, Winter 2004.

Wilson, Paul Scott. Coherence in 'Biographia Literaria': God, self, and Coleridge's "seminal principle." Philological Quarterly, Fall 1993.

Reviews

Ashton, Rosemary. A review of the biography The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Blackwell, 1995) Reviewed by Michael John Kooy, Romanticism on the Net.

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

Gibson, Matthew. A review of Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage. (St. Martin's, 2000). Reviewed by Mark Sandy. In Romanticism on The Net, Issues 32-33 (November 2003-February 2004).

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

Kearns, Shelia M. A review of Sheila M. Kearns, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Romantic Autobiography: Reading Strategies of Self-representation. (Associated University Press, 1995). Reviewed by Michael Laplace-Sinatra, Romanticism on the Net.

Kitson, Peter (ed.) A review of Peter Kitson (ed.), Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley. (New Casebooks. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996). Romanticism on the Net, review by R. Corbett.

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

Matlak, Richard E. A review of Richard E. Matlak, The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800. (St. Martin's Press, 1997). Reviewed by Dino Felluga, Romanticism on the Net.

Newlyn, Lucy. A review of The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Ed. Lucy Newlyn. (Cambridge UP, 2002). Reviewed by Nicholas Reid. Romanticism on the Net, Issues 36-37 (November 2004-February 2005).

Paley, Morton D. A review of Morton D. Paley's Coleridge's Later Poetry. (Clarendon Press, 1996); and of Andrea K. Henderson's Romantic Identities: Varieties of Subjectivity: 1774-1830. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), reviewed by Kenneth Larry Brewer in Romanticism on the Net.

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

Wendling, Ronald C. A review of Wendling, Ronald C. Coleridge's Progress to Christianity: Experience and Authority in Religious Faith (Bucknell University Press, 1996). Reviewed by Neil Vickers in Romanticism on the Net, 14 (1999).

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

Perkins, Mary Anne. Review of Coleridge's Philosophy: The Logos as Unifying Principle. (Oxford University Press, 1994). In Nineteenth Century Literature, Volume 50, Issue 4 (March 1996)(taken offline from www.ucpress.edu).

Introduction

A very brief introduction to Coleridge from the Academy of American Poets.

An introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge from educational publisher Gale Group.

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Conservatism's radical prophet." An essay on the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's political ideas, from the (Australian) News Weekly, 6/19/2004, by John Ballantyne.

A review of Pandaemonium, a film (2000) about Coleridge and Wordsworth. "Julien Temple's Pandaemonium opens portentously, with a closeup of opium dripping into a glass, each drop falling with a booming thud. In a film that imagines the friendship of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as a series of feverish hallucinations, this is a useful orientation: Pandaemonium is less a BBC costume drama than an attempt to recreate the hazy fog of an opium dream." (taken offline).

Web Sites, Bibliography, Texts

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

Romantic Circles, "a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture," is an innovative publication on topics in Romanticism. Edited by Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones and Carl Stahmer.

Web site for the scholarly journal The Wordworth Circle.

The Lyrical Ballads Bicenterary Project, 1998, by Ronald Tetreault and Bruce Graver, presents texts from the books electronically, which have been transcribed and encoded using Standard Generalized Markup Language, supplemented with images of the actual printed pages.

The Samuel T. Coleridge web site, maintained by Marjorie A. Tiefert at the Univ. of Virginia, has links to many Coleridge texts, including his poems 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; his literary theory and criticism; his political commentary and journalism; his writing on science, philosophy, theology, psychology; and his Letters.

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

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