Coleridge's Aids to Reflection was written at a time when new movements in thought were starting to unsettle belief. It was read with admiration by early Victorians such as John Sterling, F. D. Maurice, and Thomas Arnold, contributing to the formation of the Broad Church Movement, and with respect by members of the High Church Movement, including John Henry Newman. Coleridge had intended simply to produce a selection from the writings of the seventeenth-century Archbishop Robert Leighton with comments of his own, but as he worked at the book he found the commentary expanding to take...
Coleridge's Aids to Reflection was written at a time when new movements in thought were starting to unsettle belief. It was read with admira...
This is the longest of Coleridge's major poems. In 1817, Coleridge wrote the following about the poem in his Biographia Literaria:
The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural, and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever...
This is the longest of Coleridge's major poems. In 1817, Coleridge wrote the following about the poem in his Biographia Literaria:
This literary autobiography will let you into the mind of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. You'll learn about his philosophy and how he developed his creed. You'll learn about his poetry. You'll learn about the man behind the words.
This literary autobiography will let you into the mind of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. You'll learn about his philosophy and how he developed his creed. Y...
This literary autobiography will let you into the mind of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. You'll learn about his philosophy and how he developed his creed. You'll learn about his poetry. You'll learn about the man behind the words.
This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.
This literary autobiography will let you into the mind of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. You'll learn about his philosophy and how he developed his creed. Y...
A sailor dooms his ship's crew by murdering an albatross and is lost at sea, alone with the burden of his guilt, until a meeting with divine messengers brings him the opportunity to do penance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's (1772-1834) haunting parable of sin and absolution, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is widely recognized as one of the greatest narrative poems in the English language and was a defining achievement in the establishment of the Romantic Movement.
Coleridge's text is presented here alongside the classic illustrations of Gustave Dore (1832-1883), the great French...
A sailor dooms his ship's crew by murdering an albatross and is lost at sea, alone with the burden of his guilt, until a meeting with divine messenger...
