Richard GravilCritiques

Great read, but he was clearly paid by the word... Story of an orphan who grows up into the role of misses of the house for a wealthy land Barron. She has adventures, meets many interesting and engaging people, and grows and matures in her own life.

The poems and poem fragments selected by Epson and Pirie represent the very best of Coleridges work. Many of Coleridge's poems are astounding successes, but for every one of these there are also abysmal failures making it difficult for the layman to approach this leading Romantic without guidance. This volume contains the successes, the guidance and none of the failures.