Years Work
in English Studies
"Morton Paley's Portraits of Coleridge is much more than just a bibliography, but it is a bibliography too: it lists, discusses,, describes, and (where possible) reproduces all the known images of STC. The detail is absorbing, often comical; and the subject turns out to be oddly central, for Coleridge thought his face dismayingly symbolic of his character, so his remarks about these many portraits (which Paley quotes) constitute an oblique kind of self-commentary."
Review
Meticulously researched. (
Nineteenth Century Studies )
Morton Paley's Portraits of Coleridge is much more than just a bibliography, but it is a bibliography too: it lists, discusses, describes, and (where possible) reproduces all the known images of STC. The detail is absorbing, often comical; and the subject turns out to be oddly central, for Coleridge thought his face dismayingly symbolic of his character, so his remarks about these many portraits (which Paley quotes) constitute an oblique kind of self-commentary. (
The Year's Work in English Studies )
Morton Paley's collection of the visual material, the first attempt on this scale, is admirably thorough and detailed: it immediately establishes itself as standard. (
The Wordsworth Circle )
