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Begins a series applying the principles of psychoanalysis to literary and artistic topics. Weissman, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, challenges the accepted view of the friendship between Coleridge and Wordsworth. He portrays Wordsworth as maliciously destroying Coleridge as an artist and a man, and Coleridge's affection for Wordsworth as including an unacknowledged sexual desire. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR