Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems - Hardcover

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 051715028X ISBN 13: 9780517150283

Publisher: Gramercy Books, 1996

Synopsis

Along with William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the founders of the Romantic movement in English poetry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 1798 they jointly published "Lyrical Ballads," a volume of poetry that ultimately had a revolutionary impact on the direction of English poetry. Coleridge’s major contribution to the volume was the long poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," one of the true clics of English literature. Although he lived to the age of 61, Coleridge’s career as a poet was cut short by chronic ill health. His poem "Dejection: An Ode," written in 1802, is his farewell to his health and his creative powers. Although Coleridge’s output may not be large, it is qualitatively superb. One only has to examine the poems contained in this collection to realize that he was one of the era’s most original poets – Keats, Shelley, Byron, and Tennyson were all greatly influenced by him.

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About the Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) was a poet, critic, and philosopher of Romanticism. He and William Wordsworth published the LYRICAL BALLADS in 1799, marking a conscious break with 18th-century tradition. Richard Holmes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE. The first volume of his biography of Coleridge won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 051715028X
• ISBN 13: 9780517150283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English