Abstract
This chapter begins by discussing the changed direction of literary effort and the identification of the self and the preparation of the way for the French Revolution. It argues that Coleridge's voyage down the political stream, stirring a course between the opposed banks of radicalism and reaction, seeming now to come close to one side and now to the other, is entirely consistent with his mental procedure on all topics of thought. It also talks about Taine's reference to Robespierre's ‘piles of human heads’ which is motivated by humanitarian concern and especially relevant to Coleridge's attitudes. It notes that Coleridge's beautiful prose not only validates his idiosyncratically humane political stance against any charge of Jacobinism, but it also provides a fleeting glimpse of the conversational power that bemused so many among his most brilliant contemporaries.
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