Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804

Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804
Author: Gurion Taussig
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874137415

This book analyzes Coleridge's male friendships during the 1790s. It shows the poet's experience of relationship is structured by and contributes to contemporary debate about friendship. Examination of Coleridge's epistolary relations with Poole, Southey, Lamb, Lloyd, Thelwall, Wordsworth, and Godwin demonstrates that each friendship negotiates issues of relationship discussed throughout English culture of this period.