A practical and comprehensive reference work, the Oxford Handbook provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridge's diverse writings. Thirty-seven chapters, bringing together the wisdome of experts from across the world, present an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a major author of British Romanticism. The book is divided into sections on Biography, Prose Works, Poetic Works, Sources andInfluences, and Reception.The Coleridge scholar today has ready access to a range of materials previously available only in library archives on both sides of the Atlantic. The Bollingen edition, of the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forty years in production was completed in 2002. The Coleridge Notebooks (1957-2002) were also produced during this same period, five volumes of text with an additional five companion volumes of notes. The Clarendon Press of Oxford published the letters in sixvolumes (1956-1971). To take full advantage of the convenient access and new insight provided by these volumes, the Oxford Handbook examines the entire range and complexity of Coleridge's career. It analyzes the many aspects of Coleridge's literary, critical, philosophical, and theological pursuits, and it furnishesboth students and advanced scholars with the proper tools for assimilating and illuminating Coleridge's rich and varied accomplishments, as well as offering an authoritative guide to the most up-to-date thinking about his achievements.

List of Contributors; Frederick Burwick: Introduction; Biography; 1 Nicholas Roe: Coleridge's Early Years; 2 Richard Gravil: Coleridge and Wordsworth: Collaboration and Criticism from Salisbury Plain to Aids to Reflection; 3 John David Lopez: Coleridge's Publisher and Patron: Cottle and Poole; 4 Neil Vickers: Coleridge's Marriage and Family; 5 Tilar Mazzeo: Coleridge's Travels; 6 Anya Taylor: Coleridge's Self-representation; The Prose Works; 7 Peter Kitson: Coleridge's Lectures 1795: On Politics and Religion; 8 Michael John Kooy: Coleridge as Editor: The Watchman, The Friend; 9 Angela Esterhammer: Coleridge in the Periodicals; 10 Matthew Scott: Coleridge's Lectures: Lectures 1808-1819: On Literature; 11 Raimonda Modiano: Coleridge as Literary Critic: Principles of Genial Criticism, Biographia Literaria; 12 Pamela Edwards: Coleridge on Politics and Religion: Lay Sermons, Statesman's Manual, Aids to Reflection; On the Constitution of Church and State; 13 Jeffrey Hipolito: Coleridge's Lectures: Lectures 1818-1819: On the History of Philosophy; 14 H. J. Jackson: Coleridge as Reader: Marginalia; 15 Paul Cheshire: Coleridge's Notebooks; 16 David Vallins: Coleridge as Talker: Sage of Highgate, Table Talk; 17 Murray Evans: Coleridge as Thinker: Logic and Opus Maximum; The Poetic Works; 18 Nicolas Halmi: Coleridge on Allegory and Symbol; 19 David Fairer: Coleridge's Early Poetry, 1790-1796; 20 Michael O'Neill: Coleridge's Genres; 21 George Erving: Coleridge as Playwright; 22 Frederick Burwick: Coleridge as Translator; Sources and Influences; 23 Andrew Keanie: Coleridge and Plagiarism; 24 Anthony Harding: Coleridge, Biblical and Classical Literature; 25 Douglas Hedley: Coleridge and Theology; 26 Charles Mahoney: Coleridge and Shakespeare; 27 Christopher R. Miller: Coleridge and the English Poetic Tradition; 28 Matthew Scott: Coleridge and European Literature; 29 Elinor Shaffer: Coleridge's Dialogues with German Thought; 30 James C. McKusick: Coleridge and Language Theory; 31 Christoph Bode: Coleridge and Philosophy; 32 Julian Knox: Coleridge and the Arts; 33 Eric Wilson: Coleridge and Science; Reception; 34 Seamus Perry: Coleridge's Literary Influence; 35 Morton Paley: Coleridge's Early Biographers; 36 Elinor Shaffer: Coleridge Criticism in Continental Europe; 37 Robert Maniquis: Writing about Coleridge