challenging, rigorous, and deeply informed study ... Perkin's credentials as a historian of ideas are undoubted, and her ability to range widely over Coleridge's own reading gives authority to her claims. The exclusiveness of its philosophical approach ensures the book's clarity, its momentum, and its own sense of conviction. There is undoubtedly an important place for the history of ideas when it is investigated with this degree of rigour, and Coleridge's
Philosophy will go on being of major significance for a long time to come.