Books June 1999
“A jelly minus its mould”
A review of Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes.
“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...
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