The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This volume explores ‘the labyrinth of what we call Coleridge’ (Virginia Woolf): his poems and prose, their sources, interpretation and reception; his life, troubled marriage and fatherhood, conversation, changing intellectual contexts and legacy. Major entries cover such canonical works as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel , ‘Kubla Khan’, the ‘conversation poems’ and Biographia Literaria . But a fuller understanding of Coleridge must embrace many lesser-known poems – lyrics, satire, c