Selected Poems (Bloomsbury Poetry Classics) - Hardcover

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747514895 ISBN 13: 9780747514893

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1993

Synopsis

"Bloomsbury Poetry Classics" are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. This can be found elsewhere. In the series the poems introduce themselves, on an uncluttered page and in a format that is both attractive and convenient. The selections have been made by the distinguished poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772. His fame as a critic and philosopher and the drama of his long struggle against drug addiction have tended to overshadow his output as a poet. He is admired as the author of a handful of haunting anthology pieces, such as "The Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", - but the bulk of his verse writings is ignored. "An archangel slightly damaged", was Charles Lamb's memorable summing up, implying a sort of brilliant unfulfilment, and this is how we tend to see the poems. But Coleridge was a most industrious archangel. His collected "Poetical Works", runs to two substantial volumes. This selection includes all his classic poems but also tries to represent the whole range of his achievement.

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About the Author

Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture On Fairy-Stories.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was the master impresario of English Romanticism -- an enormously erudite and tireless critic, lecturer, and polemicist who almost single-handedly created the intellectual climate in which the Romantic movement was received and understood. He was also, in poems such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ' 'Christabel, ' and 'Kubla Khan.' the most uncanny, surreal, and startling of the great English poets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747514895
• ISBN 13: 9780747514893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Hamilton Ian