The Coleridge Bulletin is the official journal of The Friends of Coleridge (U.K. registered charity no. 295285). First appearing in 1988, The Coleridge Bulletin publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, and other materials related to the life, thought, and times of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1770–1834).

Published twice yearly, The Coleridge Bulletin is sent to all members of the Friends of Coleridge. Articles are made available online eighteen months after the publication of the printed version. The contents of the most recent articles are listed. Click on titles to read.

Editor: Jeffrey W. Barbeau 

All editorial inquiries, books for review, or other matters related to The Coleridge Bulletin should be emailed to the editor at jeffrey.barbeau@wheaton.edu or, in the case of books, addressed to the editor at Dept of BTS, Wheaton College, 501 College Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187 USA

Suzanne E. Webster: Itinerance and Illness: Coleridge ‘Up North’, 1799–1802
Paul Cheshire: From Donhead to Drury Lane: Coleridge’s Sonnet to William Linley and the Rejection of Osorio
Aimee E. Barbeau: Political Economy, Creative Destruction, and Generative AI: Coleridge’s Second Lay Sermon
Carl-Ludwig Conning: Imperfection as Coleridge’s System of Spiritual Philosophy |
Crystal Veronie: Mothers and Maternal Authority in Sara Coleridge’s Phantasmion
Jordan Welsh: ‘The Trial of Translation’: The Literary Partnership of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hyman Hurwitz
Kazuko Oguro: Coleridge on Imagination and ‘Echo’

Jeffrey Einboden: British Orientalisms, 1759–1835 by James Watt
D. B. Ruderman: Blank Splendour: Mere Existence in British Romanticism by David Collings
Murray J. Evans: The Last Romantic: C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology by Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Eric C. Walker: The Social Imagination of the Romantic Wife in Literature: Marriage, Virtue, and Friendship by Linda Reesman

Jeffrey W. Barbeau: Editorial

K. F. B. Fletcher: ‘The Moving Moon’: The Influence of Apuleius’s Golden Ass on Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Nicholas Reid: On the Incarnation: Body and Soul in the Late Coleridge’s Thought
Serena Qihui Pei: Coleridge and Daoism: Inversive Circularity, ‘Ideal Realism’, and Historical Encounters
C. S. Matheson and Alex McKay: ‘The World in Hand’: Experiencing the Claude Mirror

Jeffrey W. Barbeau: Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement: Selected Religious Writings edited by Robin Schofield
Diana Barsham: A Shattered Idol: The Lord Chief Justice & His Troublesome Women by Tom Hughes
Vinita Singh: Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry: 1793–1803 by Richard E. Matlak
Jerrold E. Hogle: Matthew Gregory Lewis: Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture by Dale Townshend
Abigail Rogers: Words Made Flesh: Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism by Sean Dempsey
Celestina Savonius-Wroth: Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Joseph McQueen
Sarah Schaefer Walton: The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White edited by Tim Fulford

Peter Larkin: Rosemary Cawthray (1931–2025)
Justin Shepherd: Tilla Brading (1945–2025)

Nigel Leask: ‘Such Blessing is there in Perfect Liberty’: Coleridge’s ‘Wild Journey’ in Scotland, 1803
Jane Cheshire: Imagination and Its Discontents: The Origins and Nature of ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘Christabel’
L. P. Roberts: Coleridge, Plotinus, and the Philosophy of Form
Toby Lucas: ‘O Liberty! My Spirit Felt Thee There’: The Relocation of Revolutionary Values in Fears in Solitude
Jacob Lloyd: Coleridge’s Poetry in the Morning Post, 1797–1802
Lois Linkens: ‘An Incurable Wound’: Coleridge, Nature, and Desire in Malta
Dominik Łaciak: Coleridge’s Remorse and the Haunting Shadow of Shakespeare
Diana Barsham: After the Funeral: Coleridge, The Recluse, and the Man Who Buried Himself Alive in The Excursion

Lucasta Miller: How ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ Plays Tricks with the Mind

Jeffrey W. Barbeau: A Conversation with Daniel Nayeri

Julian Knox: George Berkeley & Romanticism: Ghostly Language by Chris Townsend
Michael Demson: Wordsworth After War: Recovering Peace in the Later Poetry by Philip Shaw
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein: Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era by Hannah Doherty Hudson
Carl-Ludwig Conning: British Romanticism and Denmark by Cian Duffy

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