Coleridge in William Greswell���s Workbook

<p>This book provides a critical and biographical account of the fascinating hand-made book of rector William Greswell (1848-1923) in which he assembled British and American reviews and accounts of the Romantic poet critic philosopher and religious thinker Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). J.C.C. Mays re-evaluates Coleridge���s nineteenth-century reputation through the lens provided by Greswell���s workbook. Mays demonstrates how Coleridge is one of the most complicated and influential religious thinkers of the nineteenth century whose ���religious musings��� (most prominently as published in <em>Aids to Reflection </em>and <em>On the Constitution of the Church and State</em> but also in posthumous collections such as<em> Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit</em>) cast a long shadow over religious thinking in nineteenth-century England and America. Although Greswell was but one of Coleridge���s many readers in the nineteenth century his engagement with Coleridge���s writings was noteworthyfor the sheer mass of the materials he assembled and the breadth of the Coleridge he depicts. Greswell���s Coleridge is a Coleridge in whom all Coleridgeans will be interested.</p>