{"product_id":"the-life-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-isbn-9780631207542","title":"The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge","description":"Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist and guilt-ridden opium addict.  List 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  \"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 \u003cb\u003eRosemary Ashton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at University College, London. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe German Idea\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), \u003ci\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eLittle Germany\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and \u003ci\u003eG.H. Lewes: A life\u003c\/i\u003e (1991).  Rosemary Ashton’s acclaimed biography presents Samuel Taylor Coleridge – poet, critic, thinker, plagiarist, cultural omnivore, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist, guilt-ridden opium addict – in all his complexity. Ashton shows how Coleridge’s writings in verse and prose are especially directly expressive of his opinions and emotions and traces his development through friendship and marriage.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn authority on nineteenth-century Anglo-German cultural relations, she maps and measures the profound influence of German philosophy upon Coleridge’s thinking and theorizing in illuminating detail, thus placing Coleridge’s reputation within the context of both British and German Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990278389989,"sku":"NP9780631207542","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631207542.jpg?v=1761787174","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-life-of-samuel-taylor-coleridge-isbn-9780631207542","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}