Poems
By (Author) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everyman
Everyman's Library
2nd December 1991
26th September 1991
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Poetry by individual poets
821.7
Hardback
256
Width 134mm, Height 211mm, Spine 30mm
534g
Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. This selection of verse and prose displays the extraordinary scope of his mind, the power of his imagination and the virtuosity of his literary gifts. It also reveals that behind the glittering surface of familiar masterpieces The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, the Biographia there is a great but unknown poet still waiting to be discovered.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the most imaginative poets of the English Romantic Movement, was also its most influential thinker and philosopher. ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' was written early in his life, during a period of intense and impassioned creativity, and, like all his best work, has a visionary quality with strong religious and metaphysical overtones.