Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Study

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Iyrical Poet, Critic and philosopher, whose Lyrical Balladas, coauthored with Wordsworth started the English Romantic Movement. This book gives a vivid account of his life events and critique of his literary works by erudite scholars on him. The main topics included herein are: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: an Overview; A Pan-African composer? Coleridge-Taylor and Africa; Romantic Improvvisatori: Coleridge, L.E.L., and the Difficulties of Loving; Dramas of Naming in Coleridge; coleridge and the Pleasure of Verse; Future Research; coleridge’s Republicanism and the Aphorism in aids to Reflection; coleridge’s “Christable” and the Phantom Soul; “Work Without Hope”: anxiety and Embarassment in Coleridge’s Sonnets; etc. This will be informative and useful for students, teachers and researchers besides the general readers.