Coleridge was one of a handful of writers in English literature who combined the genius of a poet with the thought of a philosophical critic. He composed three or four of the finest poems in the language and created original lyric and narrative forms. His legacy includes not only the poems themselves but also the records he left of his attention to the craft of poetry, his obsessive revisions of his own poems, his comments on his and others' poetic style, and innumerable notebook entries on the craft of poetry. He pondered the philosophical and psychological bases of creativity and sought to develop a methodical criticism of literature (which he called practical criticism) in his lectures on Shakespeare and his close analysis of Wordsworth's poetry.

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Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic. His writings are wide-ranging in form and content, and vast in number. This eagerly awaited Norton Critical Edition is the most comprehensive and accessible student edition available and has been prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars.

The editors present Coleridge's writing in its historical context to indicate the public resonance of his work. The poetry selections highlight the development of his poetic canon, the construction of his volumes of poetry, and the evolution of his poetic style. The editors have arranged the poems as they first appeared in collections under Coleridge's name. The prose writings represent Coleridge's public and private voices and include selections from all the major prose published during his lifetime as well as from his notebooks,letters, and marginalia. Supporting apparatus includes detailed beadnotes, authorial and editorial annotations, a biographical register, a glossary, and an index of poems and first lines.

"Criticism" collects twenty assessments of Coleridge's poetry and prose by nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American authors, including William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, Robert Penn Warren, M. H. Abrams, Frances Ferguson,Karen Swann, Nicholas Roe, and Jerome McGann.

List of Illustration

General Introduction

Textual Introduction

Acknowledgment

Permissions Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

The Texts of Coleridege's Poetry and Prose

POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS (1796)

Effusions

Religious Musings

ODE ON THE DEPARTING YEAR (1796)

POEMS (1797)

LYRICAL BALLADS (1798, 1800)

FEARS IN SOLITUDE (1798)

THE MORNING POST AND THE ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY (1800)

DEJECTION: AND ODE (1802)

CHRISTABEL, KUBLA KHAN, AND THE PAINS OF SLEEP (1816)

Christabel

Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

The Pains of Sleep

SIBYLLINELEAVES (1817)

Love-Poems

Meditative Poems in Blank Verse

POETICAL WORKS (1828, 1829, 1834)

Poetical Works (1828). Prose in Phyme: or, Epigrams, Moralities, and Things Without a Name

Poetical Works (1829)

Poetical Works (1834). Miscellaneous Poems

UNCOLLECTED POETRY

FROM A MORAL AND POLITICAL LECTURE (1795)

CONCIONES AD POPULUM. OR ADDRESSES TO THE PEOPLE (1795)

LECTURES ON REVEALED RELIGION (1795)

FROM THE PLOT DISCOVERED; OR AND ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE, AGAINST MINISTERIAL TREASON (1795)

THE WATCHMAN (1796)

ONCE A JACOBING ALWAYS A JACOBIN (1802)

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Criticism

Biographical Register

Glossary

Colerideg: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index of Poem Titles and First Lines