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Article: Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection. (Reviews).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection. Seamus Perry, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]19.99. 264 pages. ISBN 0-19-871201-4. As Mr Perry notes in his introduction, 'Coleridge is one of the most remarkable writers and thinkers in one of English Literature's most remarkable periods'. The poet's Notebook is one of the Romantic period's 'masterpieces -- perhaps the unacknowledged prose masterpiece of the age'. While the work has long been known to Coleridgian scholars, it has been less well known to the general student of English poetry. Throughout his life he confided his random thoughts, aphorisms, observations and descriptions to his Notebook, or rather the ...