Introduction

Abbreviations

The Text of the Coleridge’s Poetry and Prose:

THE POETRY
From Poems on Various Subjects (1796):
Preface
Monody on the Death of Chatterton
To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution
Effusions:
• Effusion I
• Effusion II
• Effusion III
• Effusion IV
• Effusion V
• Effusion VI
• Effusion XX. To the Author of "Robbers"
• Effusion XXII. To a Friend together with an Unfinished Poem
• Effusion XXXV. Composed August 20th, 1795 at Clevedon, Somersetshire
Religious Musings

Ode on the Departing Year (1796):
To Thomas Poole of Stowey
Ode on the Departing Year

From Poems (1797):
Dedication. To the Reverend George Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary, Devon
From Preface. To the Second Edition
Introduction of the Sonnets:
• Sonnet IV
• Sonnet IX
• Sonnet X
• Reflections

From Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in Seven Parts
• Argument
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)
• The Foster-Mother’s Tale, A Dramatic Fragment
• The Nightingale: A Conversational Poem, Written in April, 1798
• The Dungeon
• Love

Fears in Solitude (1798):
Fears in Solitude
France. An Ode
Frost at Midnight

From The Morning Post and The Annual Anthology (1800):
The Visions of the Maid of Orleans
Recantation, Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox
Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest
To a Friend
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, A Poem
Sonnet XII
Fire, Famine & Slaughter. A War Eclogue

Dejection: An Ode (1802):
A Letter to -------------- [Sara Hutchinson]
Dejection: An Ode

Christabel, Kubla Khan, and The Pains of Sleep (1816):
Christabel:
• Preface
• Christabel
Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream:
• Of the Fragment of Kubla Khan
• Kubla Khan
The Pains of Sleep

Sibylline Leaves (1817)
Preface
Love-Poems:
• The Picture, or The Lover’s Resolution
• The Visionary Hope
• Recollections of Love
Meditative Poems in Blank Verse:
• Hymn Before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny
• Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
• To a Gentleman

Poetical Works (1828, 1829, 1834):
Poetical Works (1828). Prose in Rhyme: or Epigrams, Moralities, and Things, Without a Name:
• Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse
• Work Without Hope
• A Day Dream
• Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius
• Constancy to an Ideal Object
• Prefactory Note to the Wanderings of Cain
Poetrical Works (1829):
• The Garden of Boccaccio
From Poetical Works (1834). Miscellaneous Poems:
• Phantom
• Youth and Age
• Love’s Apparition and Evanishment
• A Character
• ---E cœlo descendit . . . .----Juvenal
• Epitaph
Uncollected Poetry:
[Apologia pro vita sua]
The Day Dream
[Metrical Experiments, 1805]
A Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback
[Notebook Fragment, 1806]
[Notebook Fragment, 1807]
[Notebook Fragment, 1810]
[Notebook Fragment, 1811]

THE PROSE
From A Moral and Political Lecture, Delivered at Bristol (1795)
Conciones ad Populum. Or Addresses to the People (1795)
From On the Present War

Lectures on Revealed Religion (1795)
From Lecture 2
From Lecture 5
From Lecture 6

From The Plot Discovered; or An Address to the People, against Ministerial Treason (1795)

The Watchman (1796)
Prospectus
Modern Patriotism
On the Slave Trade

Once a Jacobin always a Jacobin

From The Lectures on Literature (1811-12, 1818):
[On Romeo and Juliet]
[On Ancient and Modern Drama and The Tempest]
[On Hamlet]
[On Dramatic Illusion]

From Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism (1814):
From Essay 2
From Essay 3

From Lay Sermons (1816-17):
From The Statesman’s Manual; or The Bible the Best Guide to Political Skill and Foresight
From Appendix C of The Statesman’s Manual
From A Lay Sermon ("Blessed are ye that sow beside all Waters!")

Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches or My Literary Life and Opinions (1817)
From Volume 1
From Volume 2

From The Friend (1818):
[Reason and Understanding]
From The Essays on the Principles of Method

From Aids to Reflection (1825):
From Preface
From [Moral and Religious Aphorisms]
From [Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion]
From On the Constitution of Church and State

Miscellaneous Prose:
Androgynous Minds
The Bible
Death
Dreams and Sleep
Education
Evil
Feelings
The French Revolution
John Keats
Language
Life
Love, Lust, and Friendship
Madness
Nature
Opium
Pantheism
Parliamentary Reform
Philosophy
Platonists and Aristotelians
Poetry
Prayer
Religion
Self-Analysis
Symbol
Women
Wordsworth

From The Letters (1796-1826)
To John Thelwell (November 19, 1796)
To Thomas Poole (February 6, 1797)
To Thomas Poole (March 1797)
To Joseph Cottle (April 1797)
To Thomas Poole (October 9, 1797)
To Thomas Poole (October 16, 1797)
To Thomas Poole (February 19, 1798)
To George Coleridge (c. March 10, 1798)
To Thomas Poole (March 16, 1801)
To Thomas Poole (March 23, 1801)
To William Sotheby (September 10, 1802)
To Sara Coleridge (November 23, 1802)
To Thomas Wedgwood (September 16, 1803)
To Thomas Poole (October 14, 1803)
To J. J. Morgan (May 14, 1814)
To J. J. Morgan (May 15, 1814)
To Thomas Allsop (March 30, 1820)


Criticism
NINETEENTH CENTURY: BRITAIN
William Wordsworth * From The Prelude
Charles Lamb * From Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years:
From Letters
From [The Album of a London Bookseller]
William Hazlitt * From Lectures on the English Poets:
From Mr. Coleridge
Anne Jackson Matthews * From The Life and Correspondence of Charles Matthews the Elder, Comedian
Thomas De Quincey * From Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thomas Carlyle * From The Life of John Sterling
Harriet Martineau * From Autobiography
John Stuart Mill * From Coleridge

NINETEENTH CENTURY: UNITED STATES
Ralph Waldo Emerson * From The Letters
From Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks
From First Visit to England
Edgar Allan Poe * From Letter to B---------
From [Review of Letters, Conversations, and Recollections]
Margaret Fuller * From Art, Literature, and the Drama
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Robert Penn Warren * A Poem of Pur Imagination: An Experiment in Reading
M. H. Abrams * Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric
Frances Ferguson * Coleridge and the Deluded Reader: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Karen Swann * "Christabel": The Wandering Mother and the Enigma of Form
Nicholas Roe * Introduction: Voices from the Common Grave of Liberty
Peter Hoheisel * Coleridge on Shakespeare: Method Amid the Rhetoric
Jerome McGann * The Biographia Literaria and the Contentions of English Romanticism
Thomas McFarland * Coleridge’s Theory of the Imagination
Ben Knights * The Idea of the Clerisy: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Biographical Register

Glossary

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index of Poems and First Lines