This edition of the "Lay Sermons" contains "The Statesman's Manual" & "A Lay Sermon," printed from their original editions. In his introduction R.J. White presents the personal & political background of the "Lay Sermons" & recounts their reception.
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.