The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's major statement to a literary culture in which he sought to define and defend all imaginative life. This book offers a reading of Coleridge in the context of that culture and the institutions that comprised it.

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WILLIAM CHRISTIE is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has taught and published extensively on Romanticism, and has published a wide range of articles on Coleridge and Wordsworth for journals such as Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Sydney Studies in English, Prose Studies and the British Journal of Aesthetics.

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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chronology Prologue: Literary Life 1815 'The Discipline of His Taste at School': Christ's Hospital and Cambridge 'The Progress of His Opinions in Religion and Politics': The Radical Years 'A Known and Familiar Landscape': Conversations 'The Poet, Described in Ideal Perfection': Annus Mirabilis 'The Toil of Thinking': Private Notes and Public Newspapers 'To Rust Away': Lost Years, 1800-1806 'The One Proteus of the Fire and the Flood': Critic for Hire 'To Preserve the Soul Steady': The Sage of Highgate Epilogue Notes Further Reading Index