News - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By Barr, Mark L In the late 1700's, the capacity and incapacity of legal institutions to produce justice was at the center of social discourse.
By Blank, G Kim WILLIAM WORDSWORTH . . . THE NAME OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL poet of the last two centuries is uncanny not just in its wistful alliteration, but also in its signification of words of worth. A better name for a poet there could not be.
By Longacre, Jeffrey Youngquist, Paul. 2003. Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $59.95 hc. $19.95 sc. xxxi + 224 pp.
THE LAST THING COLERIDGE WANTED TO BE CALLED WAS AN EMPIRICIST, yet he devoted hours of his life to minute descriptions of optical illusions, hallucinations, and sensory oddities-"spectra," as he calls them.
