Samuel Taylor Coleridge (British Library Writers' Lives Series) - Hardcover

Perry, Seamus

 
9780195218152: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (British Library Writers' Lives Series)

Synopsis

The story of one of the important Romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge follows the life of Samuel Coleridge from his days as a poverty-stricken scholarship student to the publication of the opusBiographia Literaria. Seamus Perry looks at Coleridges friendship with Robert Southey; his fortuitous meeting with William Wordsworth and their work onLyrical Ballads, which sparked the Romantic movement; and his numerous careers, which included governmental secretary and sometimes spy (in Malta), journalist in London, and writer of plays, poetry, philosophy, literary criticism, political analysis, theology, and translations. Samuel Taylor Coleridge includes drawings, paintings, and original manuscripts that illustrate this brilliant writers prolific and troubled life.

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ISBN 10:  0712347879 ISBN 13:  9780712347877
Publisher: The British Library Publishing D..., 2003
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