The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 9: Aids to Reflection (Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 31)

Coleridge's __Aids to Reflection__ was written at a time when new movements in thought were starting to unsettle belief. It was read with admiration by early Victorians such as John Sterling, F. D. Maurice, and Thomas Arnold, contributing to the formation of the Broad Church Movement, and with respect by members of the High Church Movement, including John Henry Newman. Coleridge had intended simply to produce a selection from the writings of the seventeenth-century Archbishop Robert Leighton with comments of his own, but as he worked at the book he found the commentary expanding to take in the fruits of his religious thinking over the years, so that the second, and more important, part of the volume was totally dominated by his thought. In this, the first major edition of __Aids to Reflection__, the intricate story of Coleridge's changing conception is unfolded by way of an introduction and detailed notes, the surviving materials for the volume being printed in appendixes. The introduction also traces the subsequent influence of the work in England and America; further appendixes include James Marsh's influential preface to the first American edition, which is reproduced in full. Originally published in 1993. The **Princeton Legacy Library** uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Poetry in its many guises is at the center of Coleridge's multifarious interests, and this long-awaited new edition of his complete poetical works marks the pinnacle of the Bollingen Collected Coleridge. The three parts of Volume 16 confirm and expand the sense of the Coleridge who has emerged over the past half-century, with implications for English Romantic writing as a whole. Setting new standards of comprehensiveness in the presentation of Romantic texts, they will interest historians and editorial theorists, as well as readers and students of poetry. They represent a work of truly monumental importance.The Second Part presents the same 706 poems as the first, in the same chronological sequence, but differently records in each case all known textual information in collated form -- allowing for alternative construals of the reading texts. An additional 135 items are inserted into the same sequence, comprising poems mistakenly ascribed to Coleridge or of dubious authenticity and poems that remained only in the planning stage or that are referred to but have not been recovered. The index of titles and first lines incorporates the full range of variants.All told, the Collected Coleridge variorum sequence collates over a third more additional texts -- in more detailed and accurate form -- than those found in the previous standard edition, by E. H. Coleridge. The presentation method in this second volume will interest editorial theorists as well as those interested primarily in Coleridge and/or the making of poetry. The unusually detailed textual information also reveals changes in such areas as linguistic and grammatical usage, patterns of transcription and circulation amonganthologists, and contemporary publisher's house styles. Contents List of Illustrations Editor’s Foreword: Plan of This Edition; Acknowledgments Editorial Practice, Symbols, and Abbreviations Chronological Table 1772–1834 Editor’s Introduction To the Reader Preface Aids to Reflection Prudential Aphorisms Reflections Moral and Religious Aphorisms Elements of Religious Philosophy Aphorisms On Spiritual Religion Aphorisms On that Which is Indeed Spiritual Religion Conclusion Appendix Index Originally Published In 1969 By Routledge & Kegan Paul.