Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most enigmatic figures; his Notebooks one of the key prose works of the period. This new selection represents the full range of his most attractive and diverting prose writings. The selected passages have been re-edited and annotated by Seamus Perry, to provide vital reading to anyone interested in the Romantic period.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language; one of England's greatest critics and theorists of literature and imagination; as well as autobiographer, nature-writer, philosopher, theologian, psychologist, and talker. Throughout his life, he confided his thoughts and emotions to his Notebooks, where we can still see his speculations and observations taking shape. This edition presents a selection from this unique work, newly presented, with notes and commentary, for the student as well as the general reader.

An invaluable aid for all those interested in this fertile writer's private life.