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Article: Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2003
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Gurion Taussig, Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804
(Newark: Univ. Of Delaware Press, 2003), pp. 376. $65.
The complexities of Coleridge's character and his difficult relationships with the remarkable people he drew to him are fascinating, inspiring much speculation and analysis. Nevertheless, in Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804 Gurion Taussig argues persuasively that Coleridge's character and relationships have not been properly historicised, and that transhistorical psychological assessment needs to be balanced by greater sensitivity to the way Coleridge and his culture understood the issues involved in friendship. "What might ...