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 three years 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

Charles W. Mahoney:  Poetic Power and Practical Criticism: The Shakespearean Underpinnings of the Biographia
Aimee E. Barbeau: Coleridge’s Defense of Monarchy: Democracy and Commerce in a Modern Regime
Maximiliaan van Woudenberg: Coleridge and the Lessing Monument in Wolfenbüttel
Markus Poetzsch: Negotiating ‘Felicitous Space’: De Quincey at His Sister’s Bedside
Tim Fulford: Thomas Poole and Thomas Wedgwood: The Correspondence of Two of the Coleridge Circle

Anne Wallace on Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770–1836 by Simon Bainbridge
Paul Cheshire on Coleridge’s Political Poetics: Radicalism and Whig Verse 1794–1802 by Jacob Lloyd
Nicholas Reid on An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists: Sources and Commentary edited by Douglas Hedley and Christian Hengstermann
Toby Lucas on William Blake’s Divine Love: Visions of Oothoon by Joshua Schouten de Jel
Brad Bannon on My Natural Methodism: Experience Becomes Words by Richard E. Brantley
Sean Hayden on The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist
Molly Watson on Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Winter Jade Werner

Lisa Ann Robertson: ‘Time + Space’: Coleridge’s Phenomenological Organicism in ‘Theory of Life’
Timothy Whelan: New Letters of Sara Coleridge to Maria Jane Jewsbury, 1829–1832
Graham Davidson: The Intelligible Ode Revisited

J. Jennifer Jones on The Intelligible Ode: Intimations of Paradise by Graham Davidson
Peter Larkin on Coleridge’s Sublime Later Prose and Recent Theory: Kristeva, Adorno, Rancière by Murray Evans
Ann Wierda Rowland on How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums by Jillian M. Hess
Margaret A. Fisher on Another Road to Xanadu: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, His Teacher William Wales & Cook’s Second Voyage by Bill Whelen
Nicholas Reid on Coleridge in William Greswell’s Workbook by J. C. C. Mays
Jennifer Davis Michael on British Romanticism and Peace by John Bugg
Jeanne Britton on Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation by Carmen Faye Mathes
Ramazan Saral on Blake and Lucretius: The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood by Joshua Schouten de Jel
Andrew O. Winckles on The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism by Robert Southey, edited by Tim Fulford

Editors’ Introduction: Brecht de Groote, Tim Fulford, and Matthew Sangster
Robert Morrison: De Quincey Now: A Foreword
Margaret Russett: Suspended Life
Daniel S. Roberts: Associationism, Self-Formation, and the Pursuit of Happiness in De Quincey’s Early Writings
Felicity James: Fountains and Night Fears: Lamb, De Quincey, and Childhood in the London Magazine
Nick Dodd: De Quincey’s Co-Ontological Sleep: Electra’s Kindness as a Way beyond ‘Dog Sleep’ and Nightmare
Peter J. Kitson: ‘I cannot muster a fiddle’: De Quincey, Lamb, Opium, and Addiction
Daniel Cook: ‘Arrayed for Mutual Slaughter’: Warfare and Moral Action in De Quincey’s Later Essays

Anya Taylor on The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, edited by Tim Fulford 
Christoph Bode on In Xanadu: Gedichte Englisch/Deutsch, edited and translated by Florian Bissig, & Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Eine Biografie, by Florian Bissig
Serena Qihui Pei on Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning, by Edward Weech
D. B. Ruderman on Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms, by Brian McGrath
Julie Carlson on Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas: British Tragedy on the Regency Stage, by James Armstrong
Catherine Ross on Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid, by Ann C. Colley
Jacob Risinger on “Genial” Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century, by William Edinger
Richard Ian Berkeley on Romanticism and the Rule of Law: Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader, by Mark L. Barr
Barry Hough on Down to the Sunless Sea: A Troubled Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Mediterranean, by Andrew and Suzanne Edwards

Claire M. Smith: Coleridge’s Need to Draw
Catherine Ross: ‘Words in Tuneful Order’: Anglo-Classical Schools and the Romantic Poets
Adam Neikirk: Specters of Coleridge: Poetry, Biography, and the Ghost of Hope
Inês Rosa: Nonsense and Sound in Coleridge’s Table Talk and ‘Kubla Khan’
Margaret A. Fisher: Mental Imagery and the Inaccessible ‘Gaps’ of ‘Kubla Khan’
James Smoker: ‘We Do Not Know the Laws of that Country’: Lamb and Coleridge at the Threshold of Faerie
Stuart Andrews: Poets at Odds: Coleridge and Wordsworth

Michael Tomko on The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson, with woodcuts and paintings by Tom Hammick
Alan P. R. Gregory on The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Return to the Church of England
Humberto Garcia on Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism by Elizabeth A. Fay
Adam Walker on Romantic Prayer: Reinventing the Poetics of Devotion, 1773–1832 by Christopher Stokes
Julie Camarda on William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic: Contesting Poetry after Waterloo by Jeffrey N. Cox
Hannah Britton on Canals, Castles and Catholics: Dora Wordsworth’s Continental Journal of 1828 edited by Cecilia Powell
Elisa Beshero-Bondar on Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on The Progress and Prospects of Society by Robert Southey, edited by Tom Duggett
Christopher Corbin on The Lake Poets in Prose: Connecting Threads by Stuart Andrews
Allison Dushane on The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy edited by Tim Fulford and Sharon Ruston

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