Lectures 1808-1819 On Literature

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Reginald A. Foakes (Editor)

Between 1808 and 1819 Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivered to audiences in Bristol and London more than a hundred lectures in twelve courses that may be broadly described as literary. These two volumes record these lectures, which discussed a variety of topics such as taste, education, superstition, and the Dark Ages in Europe, and which also reflected Coleridge's central concerns as a critic.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.