Selected Poetry (World's Classics) - Softcover

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192832786 ISBN 13: 9780192832788

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Synopsis

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 journalist, dedicated reformer and literary philosopher, writing and experimenting with verse to the very end of his life. At the centre of this collection are those mature poems which Coleridge wrote while enjoying the intense friendship of Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy. These include such blank verse "conversation" poems as "Fears in Solitude", "This Lime Tree Bower my Prison" and "Frost at Midnight" . At this time he also composed "Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", his two most famous works. Demonstrating the diversity and versatility characteristic of the work of Coleridge, from early politically-inspired sonnets to eminent radicals, to an epitaph he composed for himself in the penultimate year of life, this edition is supplemented by an introduction and notes, providing a comprehensive selection of Coleridge's finest works.

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About the Author:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon in 1772. He was the youngest son of the local vicar. He attended Christ's Hospital School in London as a charity boy. In 1791 he went to Jesus College, Cambridge, but did not complete a degree. He began to publish poems in 1793, and in 1795 he met Wordsworth, with whom he composed Lyrical Ballads. Coleridge's best known poems and poetic torsos include 'The Aeolian Harp' (1795), 'The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner' (1797) and his final masterpiece, 'Dejection: An Ode' (1802). He died in 1834.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192832786
• ISBN 13: 9780192832788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210