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Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age's most enigmatic figures and author of some of the most famous poems in the English language. He confided his thoughts and emotions to his notebooks, a selection of which are presented in this text.

A sympathetic study of Coleridge's life & work. The development of the man, the poet, & the philosopher is recorded in the light of the strange hallucinations which governed Coleridge's actions & guided his genius.