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THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Illustrated. Bound in the original Victorian-style cloth binding. Life of Author. Gilt embossing to cover and spine, floral motif, with a harp. All edges cased in gilt. Beveled edges. Approximately 7''. Complete in one volume. Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, New York. No Date. Ca. 1880.

Good to VG condition but for wear at base of boards, as shown. Hinges fully attached and sound. Some rubbing to internal hinge, overextended page gathering. Splitting at top of spine. Some foxing. Early name. Still a charming copy.

Reprinted from the Early Editions, with Memoir, Notes, etc. Includes a frontispiece of a couple strolling by a house in the mountains, with Coleridge quote.

Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement. Preceding John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.

He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism.