Coleridge Among the Lakes and Mountains

This selection draws on Coleridge's notebooks, letters, and poems from 1794 to 1804, the years of walking in the Quantocks, the Lake District, the Harz, and the Scottish Highlands. Entries record weather, waterfalls, scrambling on Scafell, inns, and the look of cloud and rock, often written the same day as the walk. Letters to friends, including Sara Hutchinson, sit beside verse that grew from the same ground. The volume is a composite travel journal of a pedestrian poet, not a full biography and not a collected poems.

Bound in white cloth lithographed in colour with a painting of Lake Windermere. Pale green endleaves. Pale green slipcase. The Presentation Volume for 1992.