Volume 37, Number 19 · December 6, 1990
The Tragi-Comedy of S. T. Coleridge
By Robert Bernard Martin
Coleridge: Early Visions
by Richard Holmes
Viking, 409 pp., $22.95
Nature sometimes throws up aberrant artists like Samuel Taylor Coleridge who become the walking wounded of the intellectual world, possessed of apparently limitless talent and intelligence, yet who seem almost genetically unable ever to make the most of their natural endowments. No matter how great their eventual achievement, it seems only a tithe of what it might have been.
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