The Sacred River: A Coleridge Reader on the Imagination

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joe Carlson (Introduction)

232 pages, Paperback

Published December 13, 2025

About the author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.

Reviews

[James]

A fascinating read, filled with insights on poetry, imagination, beauty, and philosophy. I would give it five stars, no doubt, if I was better able to understand its more recondite sections.