Coleridge was a major critic of Shakespeare and a seminal influence on modern criticism. Earlier selections of his Shakespeare criticism are now out of print. This new selection is drawn largely from Professor Foakes' authoritative edition of Coleridge's Literary Lectures and it makes this material available in a format which allows the student to follow the development of Coleridge's ideas and the changes in his critical procedures. There is a considerable Introdcution. Professor Foakes teaches in the Department of English as the University of California in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Coleridge's Literary Lectures (1986) for the new Princeton Collected Coleridge.