An experiment in honesty: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Friend.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conservatism can be observed in The Friend, a serial publication)

From: Modern Age | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Cain, Jeffrey | Copyright information

CONSERVATIVES TODAY OWE A debt of gratitude to Russell Kirk for rightly seeing in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mature thought a great deal more than the epithet "romantic poet" might suggest. Still, some may wonder how exactly Coleridge--notorious for his opium addiction, youthful enthusiasm for the French Revolution, intellectual fixation with German Romanticism, estranged family life, amorous obsessions, bohemian lifestyle, plagiarisms, and long-held interest in establishing a utopi...

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