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Book SynopsisOffers a sampling of Coleridge's encyclopedic marginalia. This book also offers an introduction to Coleridge's life, the intellectual issues and concerns that held his attention, and the workings of his mind. It features brief headnotes that outline Coleridge's circumstances year by year and provide historical information.
Trade Review"You might be forgiven for wondering what wide appeal there is in a book which selects the marginal jottings of a long-dead poet... I have found myself turning to it again and again, first in the manner of a commonplace book, and then--for this is how the book is arranged--as a chronological record of the development of Coleridge's thoughts. And these are almost always worth reading... The book becomes, then, a kind of sideways intellectual autobiography, a dossier of immediate response, scrupulous honesty or honest bewilderment."--Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "Jackson intends her selection to serve as an introduction to the great Coleridgean themes, and it succeeds very well... [Her] selection is excellent; it is where readers new to the marginalia should start."--Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement
