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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) 2,386 copies
Lyrical Ballads (1798) 1,138 copies
The Complete Poems (1912) 499 copies
The Major Works (1985) 415 copies
Biographia Literaria (1907) 390 copies
The Portable Coleridge (1950) 363 copies
Coleridge: Poems (1997) 81 copies
Coleridge : poems and prose (1957) 51 copies
The Folio Poets: Coleridge (2003) 44 copies
Coleridge (1959) 44 copies
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Cartoons (1990) — Author — 37 copies
Classics Illustrated: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) — Original author — 36 copies
Aids to Reflection (1825) 31 copies
Christabel (1991) 28 copies
Selected letters (1987) 24 copies
Poems of Coleridge (1933) 20 copies
Shakespearean Criticism (1960) 20 copies
Coleridge Poetry & Prose (1928) 18 copies
Biographia Literaria Vol. 1 (1962) 11 copies
The Best of Coleridge (1934) 10 copies
Table talk (1990) 9 copies
Poesie e prose 8 copies
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner (1889) — Contributor — 8 copies
Notebooks (1999) 6 copies
Poems of Coleridge (2006) 5 copies
Selected Poetry (1989) 5 copies
Dämonen an Bord (2005) 4 copies
Twee balladen (2002) 4 copies
La chanson du vieux marin (1900) 3 copies
Poems on various subjects (1990) 3 copies
La caduta di Robespierre (1989) 2 copies
A Coleridge Selection (1968) 2 copies
Il senso del sublime (1987) 2 copies
Verse and Prose 2 copies
English Romantic Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 2 copies
Kubla Khan (2015) 2 copies
Dejection: An Ode (2012) 2 copies
Frost at Midnight (1991) 2 copies
Gedichte [Engl.-Dt.] (1989) 2 copies
Poesie 1 copy
Kublah Khan 1 copy
"Stikhi" 1 copy
Poems Of Coleridge (2010) — Author — 1 copy
DENEMELER (1993) 1 copy
Poèmes (bilingue) (1993) 1 copy
The Voyage 1 copy
The Poetical Works I (2016) 1 copy
Remorse, 1813 (1989) 1 copy
Passione poetica (2013) 1 copy
I Poemi Demoniaci (1996) 1 copy
CHRISTABEL RELEASED (2012) 1 copy
Opere in prosa (2006) 1 copy
Anima Poeta 1 copy
Propos de table (1998) 1 copy
Shakespeare 1 copy
Poems 1 copy
The Complete Works (2015) 1 copy
The Raven 1 copy
Osorio: A Tragedy (2009) 1 copy

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1589) — Contributor, some editions — 31,745 copies
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Paradise Lost [Norton Critical Edition] (1667) — Contributor, some editions — 2,199 copies
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,262 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 919 copies
The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Contributor — 624 copies
English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (1996) — Contributor — 576 copies
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contributor — 546 copies
A Treasury of the World's Best Loved Poems (1961) — Contributor — 524 copies
English Poetry, Volume II: From Collins to Fitzgerald (1910) — Contributor — 508 copies
English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay (1909) — Contributor — 480 copies
Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 400 copies
The Spy's Bedside Book (1957) — Contributor — 354 copies
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contributor — 236 copies
Criticism: Major Statements (1964) — Contributor — 222 copies
The Portable Conservative Reader (1982) — Contributor — 211 copies
Best Remembered Poems (1992) — Contributor — 159 copies
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contributor — 141 copies
Major British Writers, Volumes I and II (1954) — Contributor — 122 copies
Poems of Early Childhood (Childcraft) (1923) — Contributor — 120 copies
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contributor — 116 copies
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contributor — 72 copies
Mary Shelley Horror Stories (Romantic Fantasy) (2018) — Contributor — 71 copies
A Book of Narrative Verse (1930) — Contributor — 63 copies
Prose and Poetry for Appreciation (1934) — Contributor — 44 copies
Elegy written in a country churchyard and other poems (2009) — Contributor — 42 copies
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Contributor — 42 copies
Shakespeare: Othello (1971) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Romantics on Shakespeare (1992) — Author — 37 copies
The Magic Circle: Stories and People in Poetry (1952) — Contributor — 32 copies
Poetas románticos ingleses (1989) 29 copies
The Lakeland Poets: An Illustrated Collection (1991) — Contributor — 29 copies
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Contributor — 26 copies
Five Great English Romantic Poets (Dover Thrift) (1993) — some editions — 23 copies
100 Story Poems (1951) — Contributor — 21 copies
The Penguin Book of the Ocean (2010) — Contributor — 20 copies
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Contributor — 16 copies
Fairy Poems (2023) — Contributor — 15 copies
Poems of Magic and Spells (1960) — Contributor — 14 copies
Spooks, Spooks, Spooks (1966) — Contributor — 13 copies
All Day Long: An Anthology of Poetry for Children (1954) — Contributor — 9 copies
Nectar in a Sieve with Related Readings (2000) — Contributor — 9 copies
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contributor — 8 copies
Conservative Texts: An Anthology (1991) — Contributor — 8 copies
Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications (1990) — Contributor — 7 copies
Poetry anthology (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 6 copies
Suspense: A Treasury for Young Adults (1966) — Contributor — 6 copies
Selected Ballads (2002) — Contributor — 5 copies
La poesía inglesa románticos y victorianos — Contributor — 4 copies
A Reader for Writers — Contributor — 2 copies
Samuel Taylor Coleridge und Die Englische Romantik (1886) — Contributor; Featured Artist — 2 copies
Nectar in a Sieve: With Related Readings (2003) — Contributor — 2 copies
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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