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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

Author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Born in Ottery St. Mary, England, in 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge studied revolutionary ideas at Cambridge before leaving to enlist in the Dragoons. After his plans to start a communist society in the United States with his friend Robert Southey, later named poet laureate of England, were botched, show more Coleridge instead turned his attention to teaching and journalism in Bristol. Coleridge married Southey's sister-in-law Sara Fricker, and they moved to Nether Stowey, where they became close friends with William and Dorothy Wordsworth. From this friendship a new poetry emerged, one that focused on Neoclassic artificiality. In later years, their relationship became strained, partly due to Coleridge's moral collapse brought on by opium use, but more importantly because of his rejection of Wordworth's animistic views of nature. In 1809, Coleridge began a weekly paper, The Friend, and settled in London, writing and lecturing. In 1816, he published Kubla Kahn. Coleridge reported that he composed this brief fragment, considered by many to be one of the best poems ever written lyrically and metrically, while under the influence of opium, and that he mentally lost the remainder of the poem when he roused himself to answer an ill-timed knock at his door. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and his sonnet Ozymandias are all respected as inventive and widely influential Romantic pieces. Coleridge's prose works, especially Biographia Literaria, were also broadly read in his day. Coleridge died in 1834. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) 2,448 copies, 34 reviews
Lyrical Ballads (1798) 1,167 copies, 9 reviews
The Complete Poems (1912) 505 copies, 4 reviews
The Annotated Ancient Mariner (1960) 432 copies, 11 reviews
The Major Works (1985) 420 copies, 1 review
Biographia Literaria (1956) 392 copies, 2 reviews
The Portable Coleridge (1950) 368 copies
Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) (1996) 268 copies, 2 reviews
Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1994) 152 copies, 1 review
Well They Are Gone and Here Must I Remain (2015) 147 copies, 4 reviews
Poems (Everyman's Library No. 27) (1963) 123 copies, 2 reviews
Coleridge: Poems (1997) 82 copies
Coleridge : poems and prose (1997) 55 copies
Coleridge (1959) 47 copies
The Folio Poets: Coleridge (2003) 45 copies
Selected Poems (Poetry Bookshelf) (1959) 44 copies, 1 review
Classics Illustrated: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) — Original author — 38 copies
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Cartoons (1990) — Author — 37 copies, 1 review
Aids to Reflection (1940) 32 copies
Christabel (1991) 28 copies, 1 review
Selected letters (1987) 24 copies, 1 review
Poems of Coleridge (2004) 20 copies
Shakespearean Criticism (1960) 20 copies, 1 review
Coleridge Poetry & Prose (1951) 18 copies
Biographia Literaria Vol. 1 (1999) 11 copies
The Best of Coleridge (1934) 10 copies
Poesie e prose 9 copies
Table talk (1990) 9 copies
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner (1917) — Contributor — 8 copies
Notebooks (1999) 6 copies
The Richard Burton Poetry Collection (2010) 6 copies, 1 review
Selected Poetry (1989) 5 copies
Poems of Coleridge (2006) 5 copies
Dämonen an Bord (2005) 4 copies
Twee balladen (2002) 4 copies
RIMA DO VELHO MARINHEIRO (2001) 3 copies
La chanson du vieux marin (1900) 3 copies
Poems on various subjects (1990) 3 copies
Remorse. A tragedy, etc. [In verse.] (2009) 3 copies, 1 review
Verse and Prose 2 copies
Il senso del sublime (1987) 2 copies
La caduta di Robespierre (1989) 2 copies
Kubla Khan (2015) 2 copies
English Romantic Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 2 copies
A Coleridge Selection (1968) 2 copies
Gedichte [Engl.-Dt.] (1989) 2 copies
Dejection: An Ode (2012) 2 copies
Frost at Midnight (1991) 2 copies
Kublah Khan 1 copy
DENEMELER (1993) 1 copy
"Stikhi" 1 copy
Poesie 1 copy
Poèmes (bilingue) (1993) 1 copy
Poems Of Coleridge (2010) — Author — 1 copy
The Voyage 1 copy
The Poetical Works I (2016) 1 copy
Remorse, 1813 (1989) 1 copy
Passione poetica (2013) 1 copy
Shakespeare 1 copy
CHRISTABEL RELEASED (2012) 1 copy
Opere in prosa (2006) 1 copy
I Poemi Demoniaci (1996) 1 copy
Propos de table (1998) 1 copy
Poems 1 copy
The Complete Works (2015) 1 copy
Ode on the departing year 1 copy, 1 review
The Raven 1 copy
Osorio: A Tragedy (2009) 1 copy

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Hamlet (1603) — Contributor, some editions — 33,585 copies, 295 reviews
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Paradise Lost [Norton Critical Edition] (1667) — Contributor, some editions — 2,244 copies, 13 reviews
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,299 copies, 9 reviews
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contributor — 1,079 copies, 3 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 944 copies, 7 reviews
The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Contributor — 629 copies, 7 reviews
English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (1996) — Contributor — 588 copies, 4 reviews
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contributor — 559 copies, 11 reviews
A Treasury of the World's Best Loved Poems (1961) — Contributor — 529 copies, 4 reviews
English Poetry, Volume II: From Collins to Fitzgerald (1910) — Contributor — 517 copies, 1 review
English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay (1969) — Contributor — 486 copies, 2 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 458 copies, 1 review
Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 406 copies, 1 review
The Spy's Bedside Book (1957) — Contributor — 358 copies, 1 review
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributor — 253 copies, 1 review
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contributor — 242 copies, 3 reviews
Criticism: Major Statements (1964) — Contributor — 227 copies
Blake's Poetry and Designs [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2007) — Contributor — 220 copies, 1 review
The Portable Conservative Reader (1982) — Contributor — 214 copies, 1 review
Best Remembered Poems (1992) — Contributor — 161 copies, 3 reviews
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contributor — 141 copies, 1 review
Major British Writers, Volumes I and II (1959) — Contributor — 124 copies, 1 review
Poems of Early Childhood (Childcraft) (1923) — Contributor — 122 copies, 1 review
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contributor — 118 copies, 1 review
Mary Shelley Horror Stories (Romantic Fantasy) (2018) — Contributor — 77 copies
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contributor — 75 copies
A Book of Narrative Verse (1930) — Contributor — 65 copies, 1 review
Prose and Poetry for Appreciation (1934) — Contributor — 44 copies
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Contributor — 44 copies, 1 review
Elegy written in a country churchyard and other poems (2009) — Contributor — 42 copies
Shakespeare: Othello (1971) — Contributor — 39 copies
The Romantics on Shakespeare (1992) — Author — 37 copies
The Magic Circle: Stories and People in Poetry (1952) — Contributor — 37 copies, 1 review
Poetas románticos ingleses (1989) 29 copies, 1 review
The Lakeland Poets: An Illustrated Collection (1991) — Contributor — 29 copies
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Contributor — 27 copies, 1 review
Five Great English Romantic Poets (Dover Thrift) (1993) — some editions — 24 copies
100 Story Poems (1951) — Contributor — 21 copies
The Penguin Book of the Ocean (2010) — Contributor — 20 copies
Fairy Poems (2023) — Contributor — 18 copies
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Contributor — 16 copies
Poems of Magic and Spells (1960) — Contributor — 15 copies
Spooks, Spooks, Spooks (1966) — Contributor — 13 copies
Nectar in a Sieve with Related Readings (2000) — Contributor — 11 copies
All Day Long: An Anthology of Poetry for Children (1954) — Contributor — 10 copies
Conservative Texts: An Anthology (1991) — Contributor — 8 copies
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contributor — 7 copies
Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications (1990) — Contributor — 7 copies
Selected Ballads (2002) — Contributor — 6 copies
Suspense: A Treasury for Young Adults (1966) — Contributor — 6 copies
Poetry anthology (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 6 copies
19. Jahrhundert 1. Romantik (1983) — Contributor — 5 copies
La poesía inglesa románticos y victorianos — Contributor — 4 copies, 1 review
Samuel Taylor Coleridge und Die Englische Romantik (1886) — Contributor; Featured Artist — 2 copies
A Reader for Writers — Contributor — 2 copies
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Ferdinand Freiligraths Werke - Neue Pracht-Ausgabe (1900) — Contributor — 1 copy

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The language is beautiful though. The poem isn't entirely my cup of tea though.
 
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Lokileest | 10 other reviews | Apr 2, 2024 |
This little book contains a lot; a lot to read and a lot to think about. It starts with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and moves on to Christabel. These were followed by some shorter poems, including, Kubla Khan. There follow some prose extracts by Coleridge which I found interesting. But of most interest to me was Editor Henderson's commentary on the merits of Coleridge poetry. I'll read that again later. The next section is a short biography - what a tortured soul. An Appendix explores his personality, and the book finishes with an Analysis of The Ancient Mariner. Right at the end of the printed matter included is a list of the first 180 titles in the Kings Treasuries series.… (more)
 
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gmillar | 33 other reviews | Feb 9, 2024 |
discussion of literature
 
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SrMaryLea | 1 other review | Aug 22, 2023 |
As poetic as English poetry gets. Full of strange images and full of allusions that I just don't understand.
 
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