Synopses & Reviews
Meeting Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most memorable experiences, and many of his contemporaries left vivid records--Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats, Emerson, and many now forgotten. This book is a comprehensive, fully annotated collection of such reminiscences. Drawing on an eclectic range of material (including journals, letters, poems, and comic portraits), and printing many texts otherwise difficult to access, it will prove an invaluable resource for students of romanticism, as well as a treasure-trove for Coleridge's many fans.
Review
Perry's collection gains much...[from] the uncovering of accounts by minor figures who made small but distinctive contributions.
The Wordsworth Circle
About the Author
Seamus Perry is Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
Table of Contents
Introduction * Childhood School, Cambridge, 1772-94 * Radical Pantisocrat, Visionary, 1794-7 * Poet and Traveller, 1797-1806 * Lecturer and Man of Letters, 1806-16, Highgate, 1816-34