Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. Articles in this volume include: 'Credit Limit: Fiction and the Surplus of Belief;' 'In Possession: Person, Money and Exchange from 'Daphnis and Chloe' to 'Roger Ackroyd;' 'Christopher Marlowe: Iron and Gold;' 'Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu: the Cultural Context;' 'The Comic Effect in the Manuscript found at Saragossa'. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are listed in the Index to Volumes 1-24 of Comparative Criticism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, philosopher and critic, a founder of British Romanticism, wrote with William Wordsworth the Lyrical Ballads (1798), which included his great poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. It was this work which was first to carry his reputation across Europe in many translations and through the rich illustrations by Gustave Dore. His poetry was received as late Romantic, visionary and symbolist, in later phases of European reception; he was known too as the translator of Schiller. His prose was known mainly in selections: chapters of his literary life Biographia...