"This book is a gathering of records (the first for some sixty years), following Coleridge from brilliant and visionary youth to last years as the venerable Sage of Highgate. Drawing on an immense range of material - from public eulogy to private journal, formal obituary to chatty letter, comical pen-portrait to rapt poem - it amounts to a composite, eye-witness biography. Fully annotated, S. T. Coleridge: Interviews and Recollections will prove an important resource for students of the period, as well as a treasure-trove for Coleridge's many admirers, bringing to life one of the most diverse and dazzling figures of British Romanticism."--BOOK JACKET.