Abstract

This is the first of five double volumes which will make Coleridge's notebooks readily available, in most cases for the first time. The material is arranged chronologically: part 1 contains the text for the years 1794-1804; part 2, extensive and helpful notes as well as indices of persons, publications, and places. A subject index of the whole is planned. These early notebooks are extremely uneven and shed more light on Coleridge as man and poet than on his philosophic interests; his notes on Kant, locateable in the index, are an exception.--R. P.