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Unit 3: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge

intensity and continuously applies philosophical pressure to his thoughts and ideas. Samuel, in Notes
his later years, worked a lot on politics and metaphysics, and a philosophical consciousness fills
most of his verse—mainly poems such as “Dejection: An Ode,” and “The Nightingale” in which
the relationship between nature and mind is well-defined via the specific rejection of misleading
versions of it. According to Samuel, the mind cannot take its feeling from nature and cannot
falsely instil nature with its own feeling; rather, the mind should be so filled with its own joy
that it opens up to the independent, real “immortal” joy of nature.
In all his roles, social critic, as poet, literary critic, psychologist and theologian, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge voiced a profound concern with explaining a fundamental creative principle that is
essential to both the universe as a whole and human beings. Samuel believes that imagination
is the epitome of this uniting force as it represents the means by which the twin human capabilities
for non-rational and intuitive understanding and for discriminating and organising thought
relating to the material world are resolved. It was because of this kind of reconciliation of
opposites that Samuel successfully attempted, to combine a sense of the ideal and the universal
with an acute observation of the specific and sensory in his own poetry and in his criticism.

A Selected Bibliography

Prose

A Moral and Political Lecture (1795)
Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character (1825)
Biographia Literaria, or Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions (1817)
The Plot Discovered, or an Address to the People Against Ministerial Treason (1795)

The Statesman’s Manual, or The Bible the Best Guide to Political Skill and Foresight: A Lay Sermon (1816)
Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1932)
Zapolya: A Christmas Tale (1817)
Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1973)

Conciones ad Populum, or Addresses to the People (1795)
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1841)
Essays on His Own Times; forming a second series of “The Friend,” (1850)
Hints towards the Formation of a more Comprehensive Theory of Life (1848)

On the Constitution of Church and State (1830)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Letters (1987)
Seven Lectures upon Shakespeare and Milton (1856)
Specimens of the Table Talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835)

The Friend: A Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper (1810)
The Friend; A Series of Essays (1812)
The Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1957)

The Philosophical Lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1949)

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