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For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...

Asking how my criticism relates to my poetry is like asking how my obsessions relate to my compulsions. It’s a question I’m much too glad to answer. I like Jhumpa...

We live in a communal experiment called the world. We were born into architectures of thought and art and culture that have been being built for millennia, shaped by all...

Again and again, we press the needle of experience into our body and push: You and I step onto the platform, one body inside another, consciousness to consciousness—upon a chalk-dusted stage—we...

James Parker's latest article at The Atlantic draws readers' attention to The Ancient Mariner Big Read, a streaming digital-interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem co-curated by Philip Hoare, Angela Cockayne, and Sarah Chapman, commissioned by the...

Read an excerpt from Adam Nicolson's The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels, tucked within the pages of Literary Hub.

In The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels, Adam Nicolson investigates English Literature circa 1797–1798.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's remains, in their lead coffin, have been discovered in a brick wall not far from the church plaques that memorialize the poet, reports The Guardian. The coffin is...