The Portable Coleridge

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Book Overview

Chronically impoverished, tormented by self-doubt and a crippling addiction to opium, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) still managed to become one of the most versatile and influential forces of English romanticism.

The Portable Coleridge faithfully represents all facets of this complex, haunted genius, including his poems, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Christabel," "Kubla Khan," and "Dejection"; letters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014015048X
• ISBN13: 9780140150483
• Release Date: March 1977
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

An excellent selection

This is an excellent selection of the poetry, criticism, letters, political writing , theological - philosophical writing, table- talk of Coleridge. It has the great poems Kubla Khan, Dejection: an Ode, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It has the whole of the 'Biographia Literaria 'It contains an outstanding introduction by I.A. Richards. In one volume it gives the reader to know the heart of the work of one of the English language's greatest literary figures.