Christabel Resources

The Friends of Coleridge is an organization that preserves and promotes Coleridge's work and maintains his cottage in Somerset, UK as a museum and literary tourist hot spot.

The Poetry Foundation has a ton of great info on STC, as well as links to his work.

This is a great resource for all things Coleridge, as well for information about the time in which he lived.

Check out this digital copy of the catalog showing all of the American and British literary items that were recently auctioned off by Christie's of New York. About 35 of the items relate to Coleridge.

Here's an artistic interpretation of the poem.

Here's a short and…interesting take on the poem.

It takes about 30 minutes to read through all 677 lines of "Christabel," but someone's got to do it.

If Coleridge were into electronica and had a thing for moody music sampling, we bet this is the song he would write.

It's not exactly 100% true to the poem, but the general idea is there in this 1984 song from Robert Earl Keen.

This detail is from the portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was painted in 1795 when Coleridge was about 23 years old by Dutch artist Peter Van Dyke.

This is a photo of the sprawling estate home owned by the Coleridge family from 1796 until 2006.

Coleridge's likeness, along with two friends, is captured in this bronze statue by Thomas Woolner at Christ's Hospital, a boarding school he attended.

Check out this selection from Coleridge's personal journals and notebooks.

If this cliffhanger leaves you empty, check out the rest of Coleridge's (finished) poetry.

Even 200 years later, "Christabel" still finds its audience.