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Coleridge – Among the Lakes & Mountains

A compendium from Coleridge’s notebooks, poems and letters 1794-1804, with lots of illustrations from paintings of the time including one or two of Turner and Constable. And it’s all here: the ramblings on the Quantocks, the big walks out of Keswick, the expedition to the Harz Mountains when Wordsworth got so fed up, the hike up the West Highland Way.

The Scottish tour was particularly long and arduous taking him on a circuit from his home in the Lake District, up the West coast, as far North as Inverness, then back down to Edinburgh. This journey was partly an attempt to remove his addiction to opium.

The entries have been carefully curated and edited by Roger Hudson and demonstrate Coleridge’s ability to describe scenery beautifully in words, while the very generous 68 colour and monochrome illustration reproducing contemporary paintings, prints portray the same scenes visually.

Each tour has a map detailing the route.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression No. 697
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 1991
• Printed Cloth Hardback, 256 pp
• Contemporary paintings and prints
• Size 245 x 170mm, 1.2kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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