The Regions of Sara Coleridge's Thought: Selected Literary Criticism (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

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Sara Coleridge (1802-52) was one of the most brilliant and erudite critics of the early Victorian period. The Regions of Sara Coleridge's Thought reveals her critical intelligence and theoretical reach. This study shows her in various critical guises: editing works by her father Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commenting on her own poetry and prose, and writing diversely impressive and lively criticism of classical and English literature. As her biographer E.L. Griggs said, her literary criticism forms 'a remarkable commentary on her generation.' This book makes her commentary on books and writers available for the first time, substantially representing her literary discussions from various unpublished and newly edited manuscript sources. Peter Swaab's scholarly introduction places Sara Coleridge in her literary, intellectual, and historical context, and evokes her exceptional qualities as a writer and critic.

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Peter Swaab is a reader in English at the University College London. He is the editor of Sara Coleridge's Collected Poems; Lives of the Great Romantics: Wordsworth; and Edward Lear's Selected Nonsense and Travel Writings. He has also written a book on Bringing Up Baby in Palgrave Macmillan's BFI Film Classics series.