"Coleridge's Later Poetry is full of charms and surprises. A Coleridge emerges preoccupied not with symbol but with allegory, and Paley's un-de Manian approach to this is light and insightful."--English Language Notes

"Helpful and judicious short study...he...makes room for us to see these poems as works of literary art, rather than documents of personal distress or poetic decline." --Times Literary Supplement

"[This book] delivers a picture of the mature poet that remains wisely considerate of all phases of the poet's career...Paley is an expert guide through the often tortuous textual history of the later poetry. He is also an astute and sensitive reader...The fourteen pages on 'To William Wordsworth' are a fine example of Paley's economical yet abundantly informative critical style." --The Wordsworth Circle

"Excellent...this book excels by its sound scholarship, lucid style, and exact argumentation."--Religion and the Arts