Richard Matlak, the editor of this Approaches volume, depicts Coleridge as both a model student and an accomplished teacher. Stimulate the heart to love, and the mind to be early accurate, Coleridge advised during a lecture on education, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord. The essays in this collection will help teachers apply Coleridges precept to the teaching of his poetry and prose.One of seven books on Romantic poetry in the MLAs Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this volume is divided into two parts. The first part, Materials, evaluates texts, the teachers library, student reading, and audiovisual materials. In the second part, Approaches, seventeen established scholars describe the methods they have found most effective in presenting Coleridge in the classroom. The first two essays examine the many different sides of the poets personality and explore his relation to British society. In the essays that follow, contributors discuss Coleridges prose, the Conversation poems, and the Mystery poemsindividually and in combinationfrom linguistic, psychological, sociological, historical, New Critical, feminist, intertextual, and other perspectives.