The Complete Poems
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Ernest Hartley Coleridge's edition of his grandfather's work was first published in 1912. The poems are printed in chronological order, with the poets own notes, as well as textual and bibliographical notes by the editor.Tags
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The Classic RIME draws us back, again and again,
for the many quotable lines,
for the lesson of hurting an innocent creature,
and for Hunt Emerson's lighter version.
We may remain unsure of forgiveness as The Mariner moves away from The Wedding Guest.
Mysterious and confusing KUBLA KHAN feels unfinished...
while CHRISTABEL may serve as the original "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished."
for the many quotable lines,
for the lesson of hurting an innocent creature,
and for Hunt Emerson's lighter version.
We may remain unsure of forgiveness as The Mariner moves away from The Wedding Guest.
Mysterious and confusing KUBLA KHAN feels unfinished...
while CHRISTABEL may serve as the original "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished."
Favourites: “This Lime-tree Bower my Prison” and “Frost at Midnight”.
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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, Coleridge instead turned his attention to show more 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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- Canonical title
- The Complete Poems
- Original publication date
- 1912
- People/Characters
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Important events
- Romanticism; 18th century; 19th century
- First words
- With the growth of scientific attitudes in the 17th and 18th centuries, intelligent poets came slowly to realise that their status was being eroded.
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- The story of Coleridge's life is hard to write and, in a sense, even harder to read.
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- ASINs
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