The work was originally intended as a mere preface to a collected volume of his poems, explaining and justifying his own style and practice in poetry. The work grew to a literary autobiography, including, together with many facts concerning his education and studies and his early literary adventures, an extended criticism of William Wordsworth's theory of poetry as given in the preface to the Lyrical Ballads (a work on which Coleridge collaborated), and a statement of Coleridge's philosophical views. In the first part of the work Coleridge is mainly concerned with showing the evolution of his...
The work was originally intended as a mere preface to a collected volume of his poems, explaining and justifying his own style and practice in poetry....
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The publication of Lyrical Ballads was English poetry's defining moment; its revolutionary style and content influencing every poet who followed from 1798 to the present day. Poetry of the head became poetry of the heart and soul. The additional poems in this, the expanded 1800 edition, include many of the best loved in the language, and marked the first appearance of Wordsworth's controversial Preface. Nigel Nelson is a distinguished Fleet Street journalist of 40 years standing, and he has brought that experience to bear on painstaking and original research for a brilliant reassessment of...
The publication of Lyrical Ballads was English poetry's defining moment; its revolutionary style and content influencing every poet who followed from ...
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...
Start from the beginning of the English Romantic movement. Two poets believed everyone should be able to enjoy the beauty of the English language. Wordsworth and Coleridge cover the breadth of human emotions and speak to the soul of a human.
Start from the beginning of the English Romantic movement. Two poets believed everyone should be able to enjoy the beauty of the English language. Wor...
tain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist And still it neared and neared: As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could not laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail a sail With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call: Gramercy they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. See see (I cried) she tacks no more Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She...
tain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist And still it neared and neared: As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered...
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 forever and share his tragic tale of sin, guilt and - ultimately - redemption.
This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Coleridge's longest major poem features illustrations by Gustave Dore, the most remarkable wood...
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 o...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet who, along with his friend William Wordsworth, helped find the Romantic Movement. Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads, a highly influential book of poetry that marked the start of the Romantic age. Coleridge is also well known for writing Biographia Literaria, an autobiography in prose. The book is unique for its loose structure as it is more of a meditative biography instead of being straightforward. Included in Lyrical Ballads is the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which narrates the story of a sailor after he returns...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet who, along with his friend William Wordsworth, helped find the Romantic Movement. Coleridge collaborated w...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet who, along with his friend William Wordsworth, helped find the Romantic Movement. Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads, a highly influential book of poetry that marked the start of the Romantic age. Included in Lyrical Ballads is the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which narrates the story of a sailor after he returns from a long voyage. The poem is Coleridge's most famous and is considered one of the greatest in English literature.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet who, along with his friend William Wordsworth, helped find the Romantic Movement. Coleridge collaborated w...
