Overview
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge gathers lectures, notes, observations, fragments, literary criticism, philosophy, religion, and reflections from one of the most restless minds of the Romantic period. Coleridge’s notebooks and marginalia are valuable partly because they preserve…
This title is catalogued in Essays & Literary Criticism. Its reading profile is Medium and Moderate, with themes including ideas, literature, learning.
One-Page Summary
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge gathers lectures, notes, observations, fragments, literary criticism, philosophy, religion, and reflections from one of the most restless minds of the Romantic period. Coleridge’s notebooks and marginalia are valuable partly because they preserve thought before it has been turned into a finished essay. He can move from Shakespeare to German philosophy, from poetry to theology, from aesthetics to politics, following connections that reveal the breadth of his reading. The “remains” are therefore not a conventional book.
They are intellectual traces. Reading them gives the sense of sitting beside a mind that is constantly making associations. Some passages are incomplete or contradictory, but that incompleteness is part of the attraction. You can see ideas forming rather than simply receiving their finished versions.
Key Themes
Ideas: This title is tagged with ideas as one of its main themes.
Literature: This title is tagged with literature as one of its main themes.
Learning: This title is tagged with learning as one of its main themes.