Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner: Coleridge and His Children

"An archangel, but an archangel slightly damaged" said Charles Lamb of his oldest and closest friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.In this gripping new biography attention is focused upon the famous poet through a detailed examination of his family life and ancestry. A striking image of Coleridge is carefully assembled from the relationships that surrounded him in life, and which he left behind after his death.Through diary entries, letters, notes and of course poetry these relationships are plotted and coursed to form a veritable chart of the life of Coleridge, the genius behind 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.Read less