Coleridge: darker reflections

The text traces the development of Coleridge from a legend amongst the younger generation of Romantic writers such as Byron, Shelly and Keats amongst others, to his power as a conversationalist and a ceaseless generator of ideas. Coleridge's later life is concerned with his hopeless heartache, disappointments, addictions to Asra and opium, his elated highs and catastropic lows, his electrifying creativity and boundless energy, and never-failing ability to rescue himself from the darkest abyss.