The brilliant English author's life, achievements, and thoughts are re-examined by a group of distinguished poets.

Introduction, by K. Coburn.--Coleridge; his life and work, by I. A. Richards.--The mariner and the albatross, by G. Whalley.--The theme of The ancient mariner, by D. W. Harding.--The nightmare world of The ancient mariner, by E. E. Bostetter.--The systolic rhythm; the structure of Coleridge's conversation poems, by A. Gerard.--Kubla Khan, by E. Schneider.--Coleridge as critic, by H. Read.--Ideas and symbol; some hints from Coleridge, by L. C. Knights.--The marriage of night and day; notes on Coleridge and romanticism, by Y. Takahashi.--Wordsworth and Coleridge on diction and figures, by M. H. Abrams.--Coleridge on Milton's Satan, by B. T. Sankey, Jr.--Coleridge's economic views on postwar depression, 1817, by W. F. Kennedy.--Coleridge's historical thought, by R. O. Preyer.--Coleridge on the growth of the mind, by D. M. Emmett.--Chronology of important dates.--Notes on the editor and contributors.--Selected bibliography (p. 182-86).