Frederick Burwick - The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

A practical and comprehensive reference work, the Oxford Handbook provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on all aspects of Coleridges 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 and Influences, 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 (19572002) 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 six volumes (19561971). 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 Coleridges career. It analyzes the many aspects of Coleridges literary, critical, philosophical, and theological pursuits, and it furnishes both students and advanced scholars with the proper tools for assimilating and illuminating Coleridges rich and varied accomplishments, as well as offering an authoritative guide to the most up-to-date thinking about his achievements.

Frederick Burwick, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, is author and editor of twenty four books and over a hundred articles. He is editor of Coleridges Biographia Literaria: Text and Meaning (1989), and more recently, with James McKusick, Faustus, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the German of Goethe (OUP, 2007). His Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination (1996) won the Barricelli Book of the Year Award of the International Conference on Romanticism. He has been named Distinguished Scholar by both the British Academy (1992) and the Keats-Shelley Association (1998).

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Hundreds of scholarly works have laid the foundation for the present Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Of particular value are Earl Leslie Griggss edition of the letters (19561971), and the edition of the notebooks (19572002), commenced by Kathleen Coburn and carried forward by Merten Christensen and Anthony John Harding. But the grandest development in Coleridgean scholarship has been The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (19692002). The major task of this Handbook is to address the vast scope, to assimilate, and to elucidate the manifold facets of Coleridges literary career. The most profound acknowledgment, then, is owed to the dedicated and capable editors who have provided these indispensible editions. Happily, a few scholars who were involved in the editing of Coleridges works have also been able to contribute to the Handbook. A second round of gratitude must therefore go to the thirty-four authors who accepted the formidable task of synthesizing their expertise in Coleridges works and providing the chapters for this volume. They were given a rigorous schedule, and as editor I am extremely grateful for their dedication in meeting deadlines and their patience with the final revisions. In coping with the proof-reading and revisions, my fellow contributors will join me in thanking Claire Thompson and Andrew Hawkey for their meticulous attention to the text. My final word of thanks is to Andrew McNeillie for inviting me to undertake this project. In spite of its being far more work than I had anticipated, I must also say that it has been a rewarding learning experience.

Frederick Burwick

Nicholas Roe

Richard Gravil

John-David Lopez

Neil Vickers

Tilar J. Mazzeo

Anya Taylor

Peter J. Kitson

Michael John Kooy

Angela Esterhammer

Matthew Scott

Raimonda Modiano

Pamela Edwards

Jeffrey Hipolito

H. J. Jackson

Paul Cheshire

David Vallins

Murray J. Evans

Nicholas Halmi

David Fairer

Michael ONeill

George Erving

Frederick Burwick

Andrew Keanie

Anthony John Harding

Douglas Hedley

Charles Mahoney

Christopher R. Miller

Matthew Scott

Elinor Shaffer

James C. McKusick

Christoph Bode

Julian Knox

Eric G. Wilson

Seamus Perry

Morton D. Paley

Elinor Shaffer

Robert M. Maniquis