For many years the editors of the Modern Library, in response to frequent suggestions from readers of the series, have sought a volume containing the representative writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Now, thanks to the scholarly research of the late Donald A. Stauffer, who was Chairman of the English Department, Princeton University, the best of Coleridge's poetry, essays and criticism are here collected and arranged for the delight of the student and general reader. Included in this book of 636 pages are such favorite poems as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," many odes, sonnets and hymns, as well as essays on Shakespeare, on philosophy, morals and religion, and Stauffer's brilliant and perceptive Introduction.