Selected Letters (Oxford Paperbacks)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Jackson, H. J.

ISBN 10: 0192821407 / ISBN 13: 9780192821409

Published by Oxford University Press (edition ), 1988

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Letters (Oxford Paperbacks)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192821407
• ISBN 13: 9780192821409
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Coleridge was an outstanding letter-writer, but until now readers were forced to choose between the limited selection given in anthologies, and the six volumes of the standard edition. This volume contains the best of Coleridge's published letters, concentrating on those of literary and biographical interest, and including explanatory passages wherever necessary to create a sense of continuous narration. Jackson has included letters from every phase of Coleridge's career, revealing his complex personality in evolution. These vivid and intimate letters also record the progress of his association with Southey and Wordsworth, and his struggle against addiction to opium. Useful supplementary material includes a chronology of Coleridge's life, brief biographies of the main correspondents as well as the people they mention in their letters, and translations of foreign phrases.