Dejection: An Ode Resources

Websites

Easing Into Coleridge

This biography and links to his work is a good place to get started.

A Deeper Dive

This site presents a decidedly literary biography of Coleridge, as well as other links to his work and to criticism.

Video

The Romantics

This is a BBC documentary on the literary group that Coleridge helped to found.

Dejected Flower?

What does dejection look like to you? Is it a plastic animated flower on a windowsill, with a few dead bugs thrown in for good measure? Well, it is to whoever shot this video.

Audio

A Serious Read

Here's a YouTube reader offering up his best take.

What Does the Librivox Say?

Here's a second reading of the poem, recorded for the audio service Librivox.

Images

Samuel the Younger

Here he is, rocking an unbeatable scarf-ascot-necktie thingy.

Samuel the Elder

Here he is with the same wild kind of necktie, but with added sideburns.

Articles and Interviews

"Why Coleridge?"

Instead of just writing "why not?", critic Kenneth Burke gives us a far more detailed explanation of Coleridge's contributions to literature.

Books

The Complete Poems

Here's every poem, collected in convenient book form.