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Shakespeare, Coleridge, intellecturition.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge's criticism of William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20070322
Author:Leinwand, Theodore

HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF THE BOLLINGEN COLLECTED Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge are given over to Coleridge's notes, comments, reflections, marginalia, and lectures on Shakespeare. These testify en masse to the remarkable gregariousness of Coleridge the Shakespearean. The poems and plays, like so much else that Coleridge read, sponsored earnest, lifelong pedagogical relations between Coleridge and his family, friends, readers, and audiences. (1) It fell to Coleridge first to understand then to explain Shakespeare. What he read, he could not help but talk about. And talk ...

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