Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality and Religion: illustrated by Select Passages from our Elder Divines, especially from Archbishop Leighton.

Bookseller Notes

One of Coleridge's most influential theological works, in which he aims both to revise Anglican orthodoxy by reviving the writings of seventeenth-century divines such as Archbishop Leighton, and to expose the shortcomings of contemporary spiritual movements, notably, Unitarianism and rational theology. The penultimate work to be published during Coleridge's lifetime, the wide-ranging nature of the aphorisms attesting to the poet's intellectual curiosity and breadth of reading. The prize copy was issued under the tenure of Franc Sadleir, a somewhat controversial Trinity College figure, who, at this point was Doneelan Lecturer, librarian, bursar and Erasmus Smith professor of mathematics, simultaneously drawing salaries for each position.