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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Male : Lake Poet & Critic. Married Sara Fricker in 1794. Addicted to opium in his later years
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Ottery St Mary, Devon

Date of Birth : 1772 Date of Death : 1834 Age : 62

Pseudonyms : Professor Porson

Education : Christ's Hospital, London & Jesus College, Cambridge
1794-1800
The Fall of Robespierre
(1794) - play
A Moral and Political Lecture, delivered at Bristol
(1795 Ptd by George Routh) - pb
Conciones ad Populum, or Addresses to the People
(1795 PP by Author) - pb
The Plot Discovered, or An Address to the People Against Ministerial Treason
(1795 PP by Author, Bristol)
The Watchman : A Periodical Publication in Prose & Verse
(1796 Author) - 10 issues
Poems on Various Subjects
(1796 for Robinson, London & J Cottle, Bristol)
Offered in 1999 for £1350
(1797 Cottle, Bristol & Robinson, London. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1992 for £480
An Anthology of Sonnets
(Untitled) (1796 Bristol) - et al
Ode to the Departing Year
(1796 N Biggs, Bristol)
Blank Verse
(1797) - with Charles Lloyd
Fears in Solitude
(1798 J Johnson, London)
Lyrical Ballads : With a Few Other Poems
(1798 J Cottle for Longman, Bristol)
- 2 vols. with Wordsworth. Anon
(1798 J & A Arch. 1st edition 2nd Issue)
The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein : A Drama in 5 Acts
(1800 Longman & Rees)
The Death of Wallenstein : A Tragedy in 5 Acts
(1800 Longman & Rees)

1801-1825
Avviso Gli abusi che de' passaporti
(1805) - broadside written in Italian
The Friend : A Literary, Moral & Political Weekly Paper
(1809-10 J Brown) - 27 numbers
(1831 Chauncey, Burlington US)
Omniana or Horae Otiosores
(1812 for Longman Hurst) - 2 vols. with Robert Southey. Anon
Remorse : A Tragedy in Five Acts
(1813 for W Pople, London)
Christabel / Kubla Khan / The Pains of Sleep
(1816 Murray)
Offered in 1999 for £1500
(1816 Wells & Lilly, Boston)
The Statesman's Manual : a Lay Sermon
(1816 for Gale & Fenner)
The Statesman's Manual : a Second Lay Sermon
(1817)
Zapolya : A Christmas Tale in Two Parts
(1817 Rest Fenner, London)
Biographia Literaria
(1817 Rest Fenner) - 2 vols (1817 Kirk & Mercein, NY) - 2 vols in 1
Sibylline Leaves : A Collection of Poems
(1817 Rest Fenner, London)
Blessed are Ye that Sow Beside all Waters
(1817 for Gale & Fenner)
The Friend : A Series of Essays
(1818) - 3 vols
(1837 Wm Pickering. 3rd Ed) - 3 vols
Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character
(1825 for Taylor & Hessey, London)
(1829 Chauncey Goodrich, Vermont)
Table Talk
(Ed H N Coleridge) (1825) - 2 vols

1826-1840
The Poetical Works
(1828 Wm Pickering 16/-) - 3 vols (1829 2nd Ed)
On the Constitution Church and State
(1830)
The Devil's Walk : A Poem
(1830) - Anon, with Robert Southey. By Professor Porson
The Poetical Works
(1834 Wm Pickering) - 3 vols
Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late S T Coleridge
(1835 Murray) - 2 vols
Literary Remains
(1836-8) - 4 vols
Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S T Coleridge
(1836 Moxon, London) - edited by Thomas Allsop. 2 vols
The Poetical Works .. with Life of the Author
(1839 C Daly, London)
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
(1840 Wm Pickering) (1841 James Munroe, Boston)

1841-1850
Essay on Method
(1845)
Letters of S T Coleridge, with selections from his notebooks
(1846)
The Poems
(1848 Wm Pickering, London)
The Raven : A Christmas Tale in Verse
(1848 R Middleton)
Hints Towards the Formation of a More Comprehensive Theory of Life
(1848 Churchill, London)
Notes and Lectures upon Shakespeare & Some of the Old Poets & Dramtists
(1849 Wm Pickering) - 2 vols
Essays on His Own Times : Forming a 2nd Series The Friend
(1850 Wm Pickering) - 3 vols

1851-1860
The Poems
(1852 Moxon, London. New Ed) - edited by Derwent & Sara Coleridge
The Dramatic Works
(1852 Moxon) - Edited by Derwent Coleridge
Notes, Theological, Political & Miscellaneous
(1853 Moxon)
Notes Upon English Divines
(1853)
Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton
(1856 Chapman & Hall)
The Poems
(1860 Tauchnitz)

1861-1875
Christabel and the Lyrical & Imaginative Poems of S T Coleridge
(1869 Sampson Low)
The Poetical Works
(1872 Moxon) - Thomas Seccombe
Osario : A Tragedy
(1873 John Pearson)
Osorio a Tragedy, as Originally written in 1797
(1873 John Pearson, London)

1876-1900
The Poetical & Dramatic Works
(1877 Pickering) - 4 vols. + De Luxe Set of 100 on Large Paper
The Poetical Works
(1885 George Bell) - 2 vols
The Poetical Works
(1893 Macmillan) - edited by James Dykes Campbell
Anima Poetae - from the Unpublished Notebooks
(Ed E H Coleridge) (1895 Heinemann)
Letters
(Ed E H Coleridge) (1895) - 2 vols
Poems Chosen Out of the Works of S T Coleridge
(1896 Kelmscott Press) - 300
Selections from Coleridge
(1898 Longmans) - Intro by Andrew Lang. Patten Wilson
Coleridge's Poems : A Facsimile Reproduction of the Proofs and MSS of Some of the Poems
(1899 Constable) - 250 + 50 Large Paper Edition

1901-1925
Christabel
(1907 Constable)
The Complete Poetical Works
(Ed E H Coleridge) (1912 OUP) - 2 vols
Poems
(Ed E H Coleridge) (1912 Oxford)

1926-1950
Shakespearean Criticism
(Ed T M Raysor) (1930 Cambs, Mass) - 2 vols
Unpublished Letters
(1932 Constable) - Edited by Earl Leslie
Select Poetry & Prose
(Ed Stephen Potter) (1933 Nonesuch Press)
Political Thought
(Ed R J White) (1935)
Selected Poems
(1935 Nonesuch Press) - 500. S Mrozewski
Minnow among the Tritons : Letters to Thomas Poole 1799-1834
(1934 Nonesuch Press) - 675
Miscellaneous Criticism
(Ed Raysor) (1936 Cambs, Mass)
The Philosophical Lectures 1818-19
(ED K Coburn) (1949 Pilot Press, London)

Since 1951
Inquiring Spirit
(Ed Kathleen Coburn) (1951)
Collected Letters
(Ed E L Griggs) (1956 Oxford) - 6 vols
Notebooks
(Ed K Coburn) (1957 NY) - 11 vols
The Complete Poetical Works
(1968 Clarendon Press) - 2 vols
Collected Poems
(1988 Brighton) - 30. Geoffrey Trenaman
(Ed) Seamus Perry : Coleridge's Notebooks - A Selection (2003 Oxford UP £19.99)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(1798)
(1837 A Hill, Edinburgh / Ackermann, London) - David Scott
(1857 Sampson Low) - Birket Foster, Wehnert, Duncan
(1863 Art Union of London) - J Noel Paton
(c1869 Sampson Low) - Birket Foster, E Duncan & E H Wehnert
(1875 Dore Gallery, London) - Gustave Dore
(1883 Nelson) - David Scott
(1889 Henry Altemus, Phila) - Gustave Dore
(1899 Hacon & Ricketts / Vale Press) - Charles Ricketts
(1900 Gay & Bird : Herbert Cole) - De Luxe Edition of 200
(1903 Essex House Press) - 150 printed on vellum. William Strang
(1910 Harrap) - 525 signed by Willy Pogany
(1929 Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol) - 400. David Jones
Offered in 1991 for £650
(1930 OUP) - 750. Bruce Rogers
(1931 Cheshire House, NY) - 1200. intro by Edmund Blunden. 1200. Charles Tomlinson
(1943 Chatto & Windus) -Mervyn Peake
(1945 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
(1945 Allen & Richard Lane) - 700. Duncan Grant
(1976 Rampant Lions Press) - 140 signed by Patrick Procktor
(1994 Folio Society) - Garrick Palmer

READING
Thomas Allsop : Letters, Conversations & Recollections of Coleridge
(1836 Moxon) - 2 vols
James Gillman : The Life of Coleridge, Vol 1
(1838 Wm Pickering) - unfinished
John Stuart Mill : Coleridge
(1840)
Joseph Cottle : Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey
(1847 Houlston & Stoneman, London)
H D Traill : Coleridge
(1884 Macmillan)
Hall Caine : Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1887 Walter Scott)
Alois Brandl : Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School
(1887 Murray)
James Dykes Campbell : Coleridge - a Narrative of the events of his life
(1894 Macmillan)
J L Haney : Coleridge - A Bibliography
(1903 for PP circulation, Phila) - 300 + 30 large paper signed
Thomas J Wise : A Bibliography of Coleridge
(1913 Bibl Society, London) (1919)
John Livingston Lowes : The Road to Xanadu
(1927 Constable)
I A Richards : Coleridge on Imagination
(1934)
E K Chambers : Coleridge - A Biographical Study
(1938 Oxford)
Arthur H Nethercot : The Road to Tryermaine
(1939 Chicago)
Eugenia Logan : A Concordance to the Poetry
(1940 St Mary of the Woods, Ind)
Humphry House : Coleridge - the Clark Lectures
(1953)
J B Beer : Coleridge the Visionary
(1959)
Norman Fruman : Coleridge - The Damaged Archangel
(1972 Allen & Unwin)
Basil Willey : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1972 Chatto & Windus)
David Jones : Introduction to the Ancient Mariner
(1972 Clover Hill) - David Jones
A Hayter : A Voyage in Vain - Coleridge's Journey to Malta 1804
(1973 Faber)
Molly Lefebure : Samuel Taylor Coleridge - A Bondage of Opium
(1974 Gollancz)
Molly Lefebure : The Bondage of Love - A Life of Mrs S T Coleridge
(1986 Gollancz)
Richard Holmes : Coleridge - Early Visions
(1989 Harper Collins)
Richard Holmes : Coleridge - Darker Reflections
(1998 Harper Collins £19.99)

Related Writers

Edinburgh
Folio Society
David Jones
Andrew Lang
Willy Pogany
Rampant Lions Press
Robert Southey


See also

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine
Cape, Jonathan
Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson
Kelmscott Press, The
Charles Lamb