Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together
a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require
volumes to themselves, among them his "Theory of Life," "Essays on the
Principles of Genial Criticism," "Treatise on Method," "Confessions of
an Inquiring Spirit," "On the Passions," and "On the Prometheus of
Aeschylus." To these are added more than four hundred other pieces, some
of them fragementary, many of them previously unpublished, ranging in
date from school essays of the early 1790s to a discussion of the
bullion controversy in 1834. As might be expected, the subject matter
includes literature and language, theology, philosophy, politics, and
science, but in many less predictable topics (such as child labor laws,
marriage, suicide, church history, the abolition of slavery, the state
of the colonies) also appear. By gathering this material and presenting
it in chronological order, Shorter Works and Fragments reveals the
development and major characteristics of Coleridge's seemingly
inexhaustible variety.
H.J. Jackson and J.R. de J. Jackson, Professors of English at the
University of Toronto, are the editors of Coleridge's Marginalia and
Logic, respectively, in the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.
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