Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
An impressive collection of etexts, biographical information, links, even some critical analyses—a site well worth examining. [Etext Center, UVa]
Coleridge Overview
Biographical and contextual information. The usual wonderful stuff from Victorian Web.
Biographical essay
[Seamus Perry, U Glasgow; Literary Encyclopedia]
Friends of Coleridge Society
A literary society which "aims to foster interest in the life and works of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his circle, and to support Coleridge Cottage." Includes links to STC resources as well as articles and STC-related news.
Biographical note
[Incompetech]
Biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Biographical note and overview
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby.com]
Biographical note
[Gale Group Publishing]
Biographical note
[The Authors Calendar]
Brief biographical note
[Literature Network]
Biographical note
Includes brief bibliography. [Academy of American Poets]
Coleridge webguide
[LiteraryHistory.com]
Brief biographical note
[Gothic Labyrinth]
Biographical note
Discusses STC as a writer of "natural history" in the Romantic period. [Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College]
Brief biographical note 
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
Coleridge Hyper-Concordance
Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts by STC, including all of the "mystery poems."
Coleridge portraits
[National Portrait Gallery, London]
"Christabel" [1797]
With one of the most "Gothic" opening lines in all of Romantic poetry, followed by intimations of witchery and what may — or may not — be a lesbian lamia, this is one of the classic Romantic supernaturalist poems. [Etext Center, UVa]
"Kubla Khan" [1798]
A poem of magic and will and the creative imagination. [Etext Center, UVa]
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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[First published 1797; the revised version, which includes the added marginal gloss as well as changes to the text, was published in 1817. Etexts below are of the 1817 edition unless otherwise noted.]
STC's most well-known poem, this major contribution to the Romantic and Gothic traditions is a powerful rendition of the Romantic quest, a journey of suffering, expiation, guilt and the assertion of Self.
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"The Pains of Sleep" [1803]
A powerful poetic glimpse into a troubled mind, Gothic in its imagery and intensity. [Etext Center, UVa]
"Dejection: An Ode" [1802]
STC could struggle with despair and a sort of proto-existentialist gloom like no other Romantic poet (though John Clare comes close), and in these works Coleridge gives us dark glimpses into Romantic understandings of the mind and the emotions, a process begun by the Gothic. [Etext Center, UVa]
"Despair" [1810]
As the title indicates.... [Etext Center, UVa]
Ch. XIV of the Biographia Literaria
This section of STC's major non-poetic work has some bearing on his "Gothic" poems and his theory of supernaturalist literature. [Michael Gamer, U Penn]
STC's Reviews of Gothic Novels.
The review of The Monk is believed to be authentic; the authorship of the other reviews is in dispute, and, in the case of the reviews of The Italian and The Mysteries of Udolpho, it is certain that STC was not the author. [Michael Gamer, U Penn]
[R. J. C. Watt, U of Dundee]
