FOR THOSE COLLEAGUES, friends, and family who have offered support and encouragement throughout this long journey with Coleridge, I offer my profoundest gratitude. Particular support, intellectual, moral, and editorial was given in the later stages of this project by James J. Sack and Joseph M. Levine. I am also grateful to those scholars who read, or with great forbearance listened to, substantial portions of the work in progress. Kevin Sharpe, David Leiberman, James Bradley, Jonathan Clark, and John Pocock have all at various stages of the project offered thoughtful assistance on questions pertaining to the religious and juridical discourses of the long eighteenth century. I must also offer heartfelt thanks to those friends who provided intellectual, emotional, and often material sustenance along the way. Lori-Anne Ferrell, Tony Claydon, Jeremy Gregory, Tom Auffenberg, and Katherine Clark have all helped to keep various wolves and doldrums from numerous doors and windows. Thanks also to my parents, Yvonne and James Edwards, for years of encouragement. Finally, to James Caudle, who has offered every kind of support and is due every kind of gratitude, love and thanks.