Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1. Prologue Literary Life, 1815
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2. ‘The Discipline of His Taste at School’: Christ’s Hospital and Cambridge
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3. ‘The Progress of His Opinions in Religion and Politics’: The Radical Years
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4. ‘A Known and Familiar Landscape’: Conversations
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5. ‘The Poet, Described in Ideal Perfection’: Annus Mirabilis
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6. ‘The Toil of Thinking’: Private Notes and Public Newspapers
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7. ‘To Rust Away’: The Lost Years 1800–6
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8. ‘The One Proteus of the Fire and the Flood’: Critic for Hire
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9. ‘To Preserve the Soul Steady’: The Sage of Highgate
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10. Epilogue
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