Throughout, close attention is paid to Coleridge the writer, the metaphor-maker and stylist, exhibited across the wide range of his oeuvre, in public and private works, prose and poetry.

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge is author of some of the best-known verse in the English language - 'Kubla Khan', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'Christabel', 'Frost at Midnight' - and, with Wordsworth, co-author of Lyrical Ballads, one of the most ...

This title is a study of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, describing its complex fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative, and loss, and its doubts about its own artfulness.