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Today we are at a crucial moment in the evolution of the Oxford English Dictionary, as the dog-eared volumes are withdrawn from library shelves and replaced by the sleek second edition of 1989. This new OED bears witness to the continuing relevance and utility of the "New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" for the current generation of literary scholars. The event of its publication provides an opportunity for a fresh historical perspective on the circumstances surrounding the production of the original OED, which was published between 1884 and 1928 in a series of 125 fascicles and bound up into those thick volumes so familiar to students and teachers of English literature. Indeed, the OED has become so familiar as an everyday reference work that we are apt to lose sight of its historical origin and, thus, of the ideological imperatives that are encoded in the very structure of its lexical entries. Underlying its overt commitment to scientific principles, the OED is very much the embodiment of a Romantic ideology of language, and the role of this ideology in its genesis and development needs to be more fully examined if we are to reach an adequate understanding of its catalytic role in the formation of high Victorian culture.1 The OED was the collaborative production of an international community of scholars working within a shared historical conception of

"Living Words": Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Genesis of the "OED"