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This book provides a critical and biographical account of the fascinating hand-made book of rector William Greswell (1848-1923), in which he assembled British and American reviews and accounts of the Romantic poet, critic, philosopher, and religious thinker Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).
J.C.C. Mays is Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of numerous works on Coleridge, including Coleridge's Dejection Ode (Palgrave, 2019) and Coleridge's Ancient Mariner (Palgrave, 2016).
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Book: Object.- Chapter 3: The Way In.- Chapter 4: The Contents as They Stand.- Chapter 5: Greswell the Compiler.- Chapter 6: The Unwritten Script.- Chapter 7: Greswell after Coleridge.- Chapter 8: A Brave Conclusion.
“I enjoyed winding my way with Jim Mays for a couple of days through one of the more obscure byways of Somerset and its Coleridge connections. Mays, as one of our most senior Coleridgeans, is a well-informed guide … . It must be said that Mays’ book is at once both interesting and maddening, a miscellany almost as broad as the album … .” (Nicholas Reid, The Coleridge Bulletin, Vol. 63, 2024)