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Coleridge's Sonnets from Various Authors (1796): a lost conversation poem?

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20021222
Author:Fairer, David

IN AUTUMN 1796, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE PUT TOGETHER A MODEST little pamphlet (so modest it has no title) which offers a case-history of how texts can gather new and even urgent meanings through the circumstances of their transmission. Hitherto largely ignored by Coleridge scholars, and only once considered as a literary artifact, (1) Sonnets from Various Authors (a title of convenience) is, I want to show, a carefully shaped collection with both a structured argument and a directed message. It is simultaneously a text and a context; it makes meaning in both space and ...

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