Offers a sampling of Coleridge's encyclopedic marginalia. This book also offers an introduction to Coleridge's life, the intellectual issues and concerns that held his attention, and the workings of his mind. It features brief headnotes that outline Coleridge's circumstances year by year and provide historical information. "Jackson intends her selection to serve as an introduction to the great Coleridgean themes, and it succeeds very well. . . . [Her] selection is excellent; it is where readers new to the marginalia should start."---Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement