pamela edwards. The Statesman's Science. History, Nature, and Law in the Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Pp. ix + 312. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Cloth, $45.00.

This book begins bravely, and in my opinion, more or less rightly. Pamela Edwards asserts that Coleridge was neither a ‘Young Radical’ nor an ‘Old Tory’, that never being a party man, he was never an apostate; or to paraphrase Stuart Andrews’ words, Coleridge was much less radical in his youth and m... View More