Selected Poems

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Book Overview

Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'), but he used and transformed a variety of verse forms, from the sonnet to the conversation poem, on subjects as diverse as nature, love, and politics. This selection calls attention to the range of Coleridge's work, its strong autobiographical content, and its artistic development throughout his career. The old chronological form has been abandoned and the poems are organised according to genre, with each section displaying its own individual development in craft and theme

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140424296
• ISBN13: 9780140424294
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

"Where Alph the sacred river ran through caverns measureless to man/ down to a sunless sea

I have a special fondness for these 'Everyman Collections'. There are of course many other 'selected poems editions' of the most notable English language poets, but the 'Everymans' have a compactness about them I like. They contain selections of the most memorable work of the poet. Coleridge whose scattered multiple- mindedness was the great sign of his genius nonetheless managed to concentrate and create the hypnotic 'Kublai Khan' and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. This work contains the most well- known of his lyric works. It is not a volume for the scholar but for the popular reader who wishes to have his Coleridge in a very handy form.

Good Book

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I love the old style of poetic writing. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes true rhymes.

An expanded sense of Coleridge as a poet

This volume contains a whole host of poems by Coleridge which are not commonly read and known. The Coleridge most of us know is limited to a few great long- poems, "The Ancient Mariner" "Kubla Khan" "Christabel" and perhaps a half- dozen shorter poems. This anthology enables the reader to broaden and deepen in the Coleridge oeuvre, and feel how wide and wonderous the world of this many-sided genius.

S.T.Coleridge (NOT T.S.Eliot)

Excellent selection of poetry and poetry-related essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. NOTE: previous reviewer seems to have confused Coleridge with Eliot. Coleridge DID NOT WRITE The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, or Ash Wednesday -- THAT is why those are not in this book. He DIED in 1834!!

The compositions if the greatest Romanticist ever

The Romantics redefined english literature, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the leaders. Between he and William Wordsworth, they WERE the movement. His vision, and glorified writing style still tantalize me to this day.