Through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge''s daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel . Re-reading the origins of Romanticism, Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange.

Through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge''s daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel . Re-reading the origins of Romanticism, Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange.