Coleridge
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Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literature enthusiasts who want a quick overview of Coleridge's life and creative background
- Teachers and students of English Romantic poetry courses, as supplementary reading
- Readers who like free public-domain eBooks and fragmented reading
- Book club members who need a moderately lengthed introductory work
Not a good fit for
- Professional researchers who need the latest scholarly views and detailed textual evidence
- Readers who want to read Coleridge's original poems directly
- Readers not used to English originals or the style of early critical biographies
Reading tips
- Read the biographical section first to understand the arc of his life, then go back and read Coleridge's representative poems alongside it.
- Jot down the author's evaluative judgments as you go, and compare them with more recent biographical materials after finishing.
- Use it as short-chapter reading before bed or on the commute, reading one or two sections at a time and making brief notes.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Samuel Levy Bensusan (1872–1958) was a British writer, art historian and chronicler of rural life, born in Deptford, London. He worked early on as a music and drama critic, and later contributed painter biographies to the "Masterpieces in Colour" series, covering artists such as Velázquez, Rubens and Murillo. In clear, concise prose he sketched each painter's life and artistic character, bringing Western painting to general readers. His interests also ranged to distant places and literary landmarks, yielding books on Morocco and on Shakespeare's homes and haunts. In later years he settled in Essex, where he devoted himself to writing about country life and dialect in a plain, gentle style. Twelve of his works are held in this collection, some classified under inspirational growth.
