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Coleridge's Bible: praxis and the "I" in scripture and poetry.

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From: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
Date: 19970322
Author:McVeigh, Daniel M.

The Bible inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His study of scripture accelerated and found him a wide American audience. He insisted that the Bible should be read because it teaches a sense of duty. It is a guide book of social and moral duties. He even received praise from preachers who thought his writings and books helped them in their works.

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 ...

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