18 APRIL 1987, page 31

A Very Comic Figure Indeed

Peter Levi SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: SELECTED LETTERS edited by H. J. Jackson OUP, f19.50 C oleridge is as many-sided as Byron, and in conversation one might have liked him......

Yes, But What's He Really Like?

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