"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is Coleridge's brilliant and hypnotic ballad about the sailor who, "cruelly and in contempt of the laws of hospitality, killed a Seabird," and the dire consequences of this event. His other great works include "Kubla Khan," Christabel," and "Dejection: An Ode."
Coleridge's greatest poems include "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," Christabel," and "Dejection: An Ode." He is also celebrated for his lectures on literature and his frank autobiographical/critical work, BIOGRAPHICA LITERARIA.
Coleridge's "literary life and opinions [on] poetry and poetical criticism," dictated to a friend in the summer of 1815 and published in 1817, includes a critique of Wordsworth's poetic ideas, specifically on diction. Coleridge takes issue with Wordsworth's famous idea that the language of poetry and the language of common speech should be the ...
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and the opium-inspired ...
Wordsworth's and Coleridge's enormously influential essay--which changed the direction of poetry by emphasizing simple language, democratic ideals, and the concerns of the common man--was published in 1798 as the preface to this collection of their poems.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most fascinating minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence in the development of English poetry. As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) and was by turns dramatist, political ...
Coleridge's "Aids to Reflection" was written at a time when new movements in thought were starting to unsettle belief. It was read with admiration by early Victorians such as John Sterlin, F.D. Maurice and Thomas Arnold, contributing to the formation of the Broad Church Movement, including John Henry Newman. Coleridge had intended simply to ...
Coleridge's greatest poems include "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," Christabel," and "Dejection: An Ode." He is also celebrated for his lectures on literature and his frank autobiographical/critical work, BIOGRAPHICA LITERARIA.
If the voice that is heard in the later poetry is a more labouring one, it is one that remains true to Coleridge's great themes. The role of imagination was always hard to come to terms with: sometimes it seemed to have acted as a dangerous and elusive will-o-the-wisp, sometimes it seemed to have been no less than ""the vision and the faculty ...
Coleridge's "literary life and opinions [on] poetry and poetical criticism," dictated to a friend in the summer of 1815 and published in 1817, includes a critique of Wordsworth's poetic ideas, specifically on diction. Coleridge takes issue with Wordsworth's famous idea that the language of poetry and the language of common speech should be the ...
'Must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the weight of over-cooked Augustanisms.' - "The Guardian". 'The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the ...
Coleridge is such a celebrity that many who have never read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" have a fair idea who he was, and yet the common impression of him is not flattering. He is typically seen as a youthful genius transformed by drugs and philosophy into a tedious sage. It is time for a change of image. "A Book I Value" offers a one-volume ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER", "CHRISTABEL", "FEARS IN SOLITUDE," "KUBLA KHAN", AND MOST OF THE SHORTERPOEMS. MAJOR SECTIONS OF THE BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA. SELECTIONS FROMSAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE'S LETTERS, LITERARY CRITICISM, NOTEBOOKS, POLITICAL ESSAYS, AND PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's greatest work, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", is utterly unique, unlike any other ballad. No narrative poem has rivaled it in combining scenes of terror with scenes of incomparable beauty. Although enormously popular in the nineteenth century, it is seldom read or studied today. This annotated version by Martin ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language, and co-author, with Wordsworth, of Lyrical Ballads; one of England's greatest critics and theorists of literature and imagination; as well as autobiographer, nature-writer ...
Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the great narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge rendered into comic strip form by Hunt Emerson. The book includes the complete original poem with Coleridge's, notes and humor added by Hunt Emerson, and an introduction by Gilbert Shelton.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence in the development of English poetry. As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) and was by turns dramatist, political ...
Published in 1798, "Lyrical Ballads" is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ing the appointed time. On the tenth morning, he emerged from his place of shelter, and sought his friends and brethren. But alas! how affrightful the change ! ...
A spectacular new pop-up from the creator of Griffin & Sabine. Readers of all ages have been intrigued and delighted by Nick Bantock's gift books. Now Bantock's legendary artwork attains new lyrical expression as he translates Coleridge's classic, opium-inspired poem into exquisite and phantasmagoric pop-up constructions. 6 pop-ups.
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