The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140423532 ISBN 13: 9780140423532

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1997

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Book by Coleridge Samuel

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One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the opium-inspired 'Kubla Khan' to the sombre passion of 'Dejection: An Ode' and the medieval ballad 'Christabel'. His meditative 'conversation' poems, such as 'Frost at Midnight' and 'This Lime-Tree Bower Mr Prison', reflect on remembrance and solitude, while late works, such as 'Youth and Age' and 'Constancy to an Ideal Object', are haunting meditations on mortality and lost love.

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This Penguin English Poets edition of the poetry of Coleridge (1772-1834) contains the final texts of all the poems published in the poet's lifetime, together with a substantial selection from the verse still in manuscript on his death. William Keach's notes draw attention to significant variants, and important earlier versions of "Monody on the Death of Chatterton", "The Eolian Harp", "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Dejection: An Ode" are included in full. The poems are arranged in chronological order of composition, the best way of presenting a poet's work in Coleridge's view, as it preserves "the interest which arises from watching the progress, maturity and even the decay of genius".

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140423532
• ISBN 13: 9780140423532
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 656
• Herausgeber: Keach William