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"A jelly minus its mould".(biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(Review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 19990601
Author:Downing, Ben

"The story of Coleridge's life," observed I. A. Richards in 1950, "has been told many times, in outline and at length--too often to an accompaniment of wrung hands, wry faces, set frowns, and worse." Such biographical opprobrium, tedious though it may be, is unsurprising given the rich occasions for reprimand that Coleridge provided. Plagiarism, drug abuse, deadbeat fatherhood: these are among the crimes of which he may easily be convicted, and at him an army of carping Plutarchs has thrown its books. Above all, however, Coleridge has been chided for not living up to his ...

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