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Coleridge's bible: Praxis and the "I" in scripture and poetry

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From: Renascence
Date: 19970401
Author:Daniel M McVeigh

NEXT to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's bed in his small attic room at Dr. Gillman's Highgate residence, 3 The Grove, the last eleven years of the poet's life, sat two books. One was Luther's Table Talk. The other was the authorized version of the Bible. The Bible inspired Coleridge, in something of the same fashion that Shakespeare's portrait had Keats. During the 1820s Coleridge wrote little on literature; the 1825 essay on Aeschylus' Prometheus which bored Charles Lamb was his last formal effort at literary criticism. Yet, though he jokingly called himself in that decade an "Author of Tomes, ...

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