{"product_id":"the-life-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-9780631187462","title":"The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents Samuel Taylor Coleridge - poet, critic, thinker, plagiarist, cultural omnivore, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist, guilt-ridden opium addict - in his complexity. This biography shows how Coleridge's writings in verse and prose are especially directly expressive of his opinions and emotions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine addition to the biographical attempt to catch the complex and elusive figure of Coleridge. The volume is notable for its aliveness, its signal success in giving us a living breathing human being.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Thomas McFarland, Princeton University\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"This book provides the student or general reader with an excellent critical introduction to Coleridge's life and work. Ashton has a gift for elucidating difficult concepts in clear and straightforward language. I can think of no better single volume Coleridge biography.\" \u003ci\u003eDuncan Wu, University of Glasgow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a stimulating study of a man of many obvious talents.\" \u003ci\u003eAlan Bold, The Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ashton writes lucidly, and the book will be accessible to the layman and student as well as useful to the card-carrying Coleridge scholar; it is good, at last, to have a biography one can recommend so highly.\" \u003ci\u003eSeamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Rosemary Ashton sets store by telling the sheer story. As vitally documented narrative, altogether free from melodrama. \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u003c\/i\u003e is a deft feat.\" \u003ci\u003eChristopher Dicks, London Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Here is a new biography of Coleridge that is likely to become the standard life of the poet. Rosmary Ashton's \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Sammuel Taylor Coleridge: A critical Biography\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive and judicious survey of the poet's life and writings. \u003ci\u003eJohn Strachen University of Sunderland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\" Professor Ashton identifies the tangle of abilities and pursuits that ranged from poetry to criticism philosophy to politics, opium-induced imagination to sparkling conversation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I:1772-1803:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Inspired Charity Boy 1772-1791.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Cambridge and Pantisocracy 1791-1794.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Bristol and Marriage 1795-1796.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Nether Stowey and 'Kubla Khan' 1796-1797.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. \u003ci\u003eThe Ancient Mariner\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. To Germany and Back 1798-1800.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Greta Hall 1800-1802.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: 1803-1834:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. In Search of Health: To Malta and Back: 1803-1806.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Friendships and \u003ci\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/i\u003e 1807-1810.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Life-in-Death: London 1810-1814.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Risen Again : \u003ci\u003eBiographia Literaria\u003c\/i\u003e 1814-1817.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Highgate 1818-1821.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Coleridge the Sage: \u003ci\u003eAids to Reflection\u003c\/i\u003e 1821-1825.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Progress and Permanence 1826-1829.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Last Years: \u003ci\u003eChurch and the State\u003c\/i\u003e 1830-1834.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403398062423,"sku":"9780631187462","price":98.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631187462.jpg?v=1730483344","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-life-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-9780631187462","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}