A Question of Evidence, or a Leap of Faith?

Debate over whether Coleridge translated Goethe roils Romanticists

By JENNIFER HOWARD

Did he or didn't he? The question is vexing Coleridge scholars. Did the author of "Christabel," "Kubla Khan," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" compose a blank-verse translation of Goethe's Faust that was published anonymously in London in 1821?

Two...