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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Oxford Poetry Library) - Softcover

Book 2 of 3: Faber Nature Poets

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

 
9780192822666: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Oxford Poetry Library)

Synopsis

This collection of Coleridge's finest poetry reveals the diversity and versatility that are characteristic of his work, from early politically-inspired sonnets to an epitaph he composed for himself in the penultimate year of his life. At the centre of the collection are those mature poems which Coleridge wrote while enjoying the intense friendship of William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy. These include "Fears in Solitude", "The Lime Tree Bower My Prison" and "Frost at Midnight". "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is presented in full, along with the later, better-known version. The collection as a whole clearly shows Coleridge to be one of the most significant figures in the development of English Romantic poetry.

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Book Description

This new selection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry is part of a series of collections from six great nature poets.

About the Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, the youngest son of a clergyman. He first met Dorothy and William Wordsworth in 1797 and a close association developed between them, issuing in their groundbreaking joint-publication, Lyrical Ballads, in 1799. Coleridge subsequently settled in the Lake District , and thereafter in London. He died in 1834, having overseen a final edition of his Poetical Works. As poet, philosopher and critic, Coleridge stands as one of the seminal figures of his time.

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