A Book I Value Selected Marginalia / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Contributor:

Jackson, H. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Books and reading.

Marginalia.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press 2003

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Coleridge is such a celebrity that many who have never read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" have a fair idea who he was, and yet the common impression of him is not flattering. He is typically seen as a youthful genius transformed by drugs and philosophy into a tedious sage. It is time for a change of image. A Book I Value offers a one-volume sampling of Coleridge's encyclopedic marginalia, revealing a figure more complex but also more humanly attractive--clever, curious, playful, intense--than the one we are used to.This book makes a convenient introduction to Coleridge's life, the intellectual issues and contemporary concerns that held his attention, and the workings of his mind. The marginalia represent an unintimidating sort of writing that Coleridge famously excelled at (often in books borrowed from friends). "A book, I value," he wrote, "I reason & quarrel with as with myself when I am reasoning."Unlike the complete Marginalia in six volumes arranged alphabetically by author, this representative selection is chronological and footnote-free, with a contextualizing introduction and brief headnotes that outline Coleridge's circumstances year by year and provide essential historical information. Our own cultural taboo against writing in books is slackening in light of new interest in the history of the book. It will be weakened further by the extraordinary and now accessible example of Coleridge, who was a remarkably shrewd but at the same time a remarkably charitable reader.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

MARGINALIA

1801

1803

1804

1807

1808

1809

1810

1811

1812

1813

1814

1815

1816

1817

1818

1819

1820

1821

1823

1824

1825

1827

1828

1829

1830

1831

1832

1833

1834

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400825622

1400825628

OCLC:

1249474878