The Opus Maximum gathers the last major body of unpublished prose writings by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Consisting primarily of fragments dictated to Joseph Henry Green, probably between 1819 and 1823, these writings represent all that exists of what Coleridge considered to be "the principal Labour" and "the great Object" of his life, which he calle
Author Biography
Thomas McFarland is Murray Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. Among his numerous books are Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin (Princeton) and Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition.