title: Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
author:  Richard Holmes 
description: "Holmes hoped to make Coleridge 'leap out of these pages -- brilliant, animated, endlessly provoking -- and invade your imagination.' Certainly in his superb second volume he has succeeded in this. It's impossible to describe the extraordinary quality of this biography, felt on every page."<br />-- Penelope Fitzgerald, <i>New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br />"Holmes's achievement in this masterly biography is to show that Coleridge was much more than the measure of his ruin."<br />-- Roger Kimball, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br /><br />"Holmes is quite simply the best literary biographer now active in English."<br />-- Ben Downing, <i>The New Criterion</i><br /><br />"I think one has to take a deep breath and say that Holmes's <b>Coleridge</b> is simply the greatest single literary biography in our time, and maybe in anyone's time, since it combines the sophistication of modern scholarship with the warmth, passion, and speculative imagination of the great Victorians. Holmes's Coleridge is the man, and the poet, with whom the world is going to live for a very long time, and he is immeasurably more interesting, more richly human, more companionable, than any Coleridge we have known before." <br />--Jonathan Raban, author of <b>Passage to Juneau</b>
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  Samuel Traylor Coleridg 
  
  By the Same Author 
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  THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BACKGROUND 
  THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BACKGROUND 
  NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES 
  MORE NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES 
  DARWIN AND BUTLER 
  (The Hibbert Lectures 1959) 
  THE ENGLISH MORALISTS 
  * 
  SPOTS OF time: 
  A Retrospect of the Years 1897-1920 
  CAMBRIDGE AND OTHER MEMORIES 
  
  Samuel 
  Taylor Coleridge 
  -—-- 
  Basil Willey 
  Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College and 
  King Edward VII Professor Emeritus of English Literature 
  in the University of Cambridge 
  1972 
  W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 
  New York 
  
  ISBN 393 07467 6 
  (C) BASIL WILLEY I97I 
  Extracts from The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 1957, I961 and I972 
  PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN 
  
  Contents 
  Preface 
  page IX 
  Chapter i 
  Childhood 
  11 
  II 
  Cambridge 
  16 
  III 
  Pantisocracy; Bristol Lectures; Marriage 
  42 
  IV 
  The Watchman; Godwin; 