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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. 'Instead of the cross, the
Albatross About my neck was hung' When an albatross leads a
stricken ship out of treacherous ice, a hapless mariner shoots the
bird, arousing the wrath of spirits who pursue the ship. Haunted by
Death, the crew begin to perish one by one, until only the cursed
mariner remains to confront his guilt. As penance for his actions
he is condemned to wander the earth, telling his tale to those he
meets as a warning. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Samuel
Taylor Coleridge's longest major poem and marks the beginning of
the romantic movement in British literature. This edition also
includes many of Coleridge's other works, including Kubla Khan,
Christabel and a selection of the 'conversation' poems.
Great title poem plus "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," 20 other sonnets, lyrics, odes: "Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me," "Frost at Midnight," "The Nightingale," "The Pains of Sleep," "To William Wordsworth," "Youth and Age," many more. All are reprinted from an authoritative edition published by Oxford University Press. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the
Romantic movement in England. His work - still popular today -
includes such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla
Khan as well as the beautiful early poem Frost at Midnight: 'Or if
the secret ministry of frost, Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.' Despite the great beauty of his
work, he suffered from bouts of depression and today it is
speculated he may well have had bipolar disorder. For both mental
and physical ailments he was treated with laudanum which led to a
lifelong addition to opium. Coleridge's influence was widespread -
he was a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson - indeed, he
invented the phrase suspension of disbelief. This collection is a
fascinating insight into his life, as well as his work.
When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of
the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one
decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This
acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the
opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they
appeared to Coleridge's and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and
includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridge's
Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.
Coleridge's flawed genius has fascinated people for almost 200
years. His greatest poems have a quality which sets them apart from
- and perhaps above - those of even his most admired Romantic
contemporaries. Yet they sit oddly, too, with the bulk of his own
work, seeming to spring, if not from a different sensibility, then
at least from a different state of mind. Here, Ted Hughes describes
the psychological ordeal which produced the supreme utterances of
'Kubla Khan', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Christabel,
Part One', and his choice gives us those poems in the company of
others related to them. The result is a daring and radical attempt
to get to the heart of Coleridge's spiritual and poetic concerns.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This authoritative edition was originally published in the
acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of
Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of
Coleridge's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by
important criticism, letters, and marginalia - to give the essence
of his work and thinking. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic,
and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over
contemporaries as different as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was
also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a
public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of
English thought. This collection represents the best of Coleridge's
poetry from every period of his life, particularly his prolific
early years, which produced The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
Christabel, and Kubla Khan. The central section of the book is
devoted to his most significant critical work, Biographia
Literaria, and reproduces it in full. It provides a vital
background for both the poetry section which precedes it and for
the shorter prose works which follow. There is also a generous
sample of his letters, notebooks, and marginalia, some recently
discovered, which show a different, more spontaneous side to his
fascinating and complex personality. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
'Listen, Stranger!' Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of
poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English
Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume
were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have
continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles
above Tintern Abbey', 'A Slumber did my Spirit seal' and many more.
Wordsworth's famous Preface is a manifesto not just for Romanticism
but for poetry in general. This is the only edition to print both
the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with
the fullest version of the Preface and Wordsworth's important
Appendix on Poetic Diction. It offers modern readers a sense of
what it was like to encounter Lyrical Ballads for the first time,
and to see how it developed. Important letters are included, as
well as a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
Long central to the canon of British Romantic literature, Samuel
Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads is a
fascinating case study in the history of poetry, publishing, and
authorship. This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the
1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety. In
the appendices to this Broadview edition, reviews, correspondence,
and a selection of contemporary verse and prose situate the work
within the popular and experimental literature of its time, and
allow readers to trace the work's transformations in response to
the pressures of the literary marketplace.
In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of the best-known and
best-loved poems in the English language, a grizzled old sailor
stops a man on his way to a wedding and tells a terrifying story.
He speaks of how he doomed the crew of his ship by shooting dead an
albatross, awakened the wrath of ocean spirits, met Death himself,
and must now walk the earth for ever and share his tragic tale of
sin, guilt and - ultimately - redemption. This Macmillan
Collector's Library edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's longest
major poem features illustrations by Gustave Dore, the most
remarkable wood engraver of the nineteenth century, and an
introduction by writer and journalist Ned Halley. Designed to
appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a
series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles.
Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Doré's dramatic engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are considered by many to be his greatest work. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the hot equatorial seas swarming with monsters, the ice of Antarctica, more-are all rendered in a powerful chilling manner. Full text. 38 plates.
'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous
ravines slope amain -...' A selection of Coleridge's poems,
including 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and 'Frost at Midnight'
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th
birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and
diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and
across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over
Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del
Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are
stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays
satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives
of millions. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Coleridge's
Selected Poetry, The Complete Poems and (with William Wordsworth)
Lyrical Ballads are available in Penguin Classics.
His writings are wide-ranging in form and content, and vast in
number. Norton s long-awaited edition is the most comprehensive and
user-friendly student edition available. Supporting apparatus
includes detailed headnotes, footnotes (both Coleridge s and the
editors ), biographical register, glossary, and an index of poems
and first lines. "Criticism" includes twenty assessments of
Coleridge s poetry and prose by British and American authors. A
Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included."
Love Letters of Great Men (Volume 2) is a collection of romantic
love poems written by leading male historical figures. *** Volume 1
plays a key role in the plot of the US movie Sex and the City. ***
This Volume 2 includes love poems written by Matthew Arnold, Alfred
Austin, Samuel Alfred Beadle, William Blake, Christopher Brennan,
Lord Byron, Robert Burns, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Henry Constable, William Cowper, Michael Drayton, George Eliot,
Thomas Ford, Stephen Foster, Robert Frost, Thomas Frost, Norman
Rowland Gale, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alfred P. Graves, Robert
Herrick, Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Jonson, John Keats, Richard Lovelace,
Pablo Neruda, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Shakespeare.
... must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the
weight of over-cooked Augustanisms. The Guardian They were written
chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of
conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted
to the purposes of poetic pleasure -- William Wordsworth, from the
Advertisment prefacing the original 1798 edition. When it was first
published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day:
Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly
different to what had been voiced before. For Wordsworth, as he so
clearly stated in his celebrated preface to the 1800 edition (also
reproduced here), the important thing was the emotion aroused by
the poem, and not the poem itself. This acclaimed Routledge
Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the
poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge's
and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and includes some of their most
famous poems, including Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.
Movement, deeply influenced by a love of nature. the founders of
the Romantic Movement.
A few magical poems by Coleridge remain among the most celebrated
works in the language: KUBLA KHAN, CHRISTABEL and - above all -THE
ANCIENT MARINER. All are included in this volume, together with
many other superb but lesser-known poems and a selected prose
extracts from the BIOGRAPHIA LITERIA and the NOTEBOOKS which show
that Coleridge was not only a major poet but also a great critic
and prose writer.
Described by his friend Charles Lamb as "an archangel slightly
damaged", Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his
contemporaries, and one who, in conversation, had no equal.
Fascinated by, among other subjects, psychology, philosophy and
chemistry, his mind roamed extravagantly and without restraint,
leading Hazlitt to opine that "there is no subject on which he has
not touched, none on which he has rested". Yet, while this literary
itinerancy left some to lament his refusal to devote himself to
verse, Coleridge remains one of English literature's most
enduringly popular poets. From sonnets and ballads to elegies and
intimate blank verse, this collection brings together poetry
written throughout Coleridge's life, particularly his prolific
early years, which saw the composition of poems such as
`Christabel', `The Eolian Harp' and `Frost at Midnight'. This
volume also includes `The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', one of the
most popular poems ever written in the English language, and `Kubla
Khan', which highlight Coleridge's gift for suffusing his strange,
haunting and captivating verse with unsurpassed musical and
rhythmic qualities.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the great narrative poem by Samuel
Taylor Coleridge rendered into comic strip form by Hunt Emerson.
The book includes the complete original poem with Coleridge's,
notes and humor added by Hunt Emerson, and an introduction by
Gilbert Shelton.
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