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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems: Annotated Edition This collection brings together poetry written throughout Coleridges life (Great Poets Series)
By (Author) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alma Books Ltd
Alma Classics
1st November 2018
26th July 2018
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
821.7
Paperback
240
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
228g
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Described by his friend Charles Lamb as an archangel slightly damaged, Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his contemporaries, and one who, in conversation, had no equal. Fascinated by, among other subjects, psychology, philosophy and chemistry, his mind roamed extravagantly and without restraint, leading Hazlitt to opine that there is no subject on which he has not touched, none on which he has rested. Yet, while this literary itinerancy left some to lament his refusal to devote himself to verse, Coleridge remains one of English literatures most enduringly popular poets. From sonnets and ballads to elegies and intimate blank verse, this collection brings together poetry written throughout Coleridges life, particularly his prolific early years, which saw the composition of poems such as Christabel, The Eolian Harp and Frost at Midnight. This volume also includes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of the most popular poems ever written in the English language, and Kubla Khan, which highlight Coleridges gift for suffusing his strange, haunting and captivating verse with unsurpassed musical and rhythmic qualities.
The most imaginative of modern poets -- Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein
One of the great figures of the Romantic age, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) is known both for his poetry and prose, and for producing Lyrical Ballads with William Wordsworth, a work which revolutionized English poetry. Plagued by debts and laudanum addiction, he left many pieces unfinished, yet his extraordinary influence was felt in literary figures as diverse as Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Ralph Waldo Emerson.