Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Christabel, and the Lyrical and Imaginative Poems of S. T. Coleridge
Youth and Age, The Garden of Boccaccio, sun bright and honey-sweet, Work without Hope, (what more conldbeleft to hope for when the man could already do such work - of these, and of how many more! What can be said but that they are perfect, flawless, priceless P Nor did his most delicate and profound power of criticism ever fail him or fall off. To the perfection of that rare faculty there were but two things wanting; self-command, and the natural cunning of words which has made many lesser men as strong as he was weak in the matter of verbal emendation. In that line of labour his hand was unsure and infirm. Want of self-command.
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