The Portable Coleridge

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge and I.A. Richards

Book Overview

A collection of poems, letters, and writings from one of the most versatile and influential forces of English romanticism

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 prominent figures in English literature.

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 to friends and colleagues such as Robert Southey and William Godwin; selections from Notebooks and Table Talk; political and philosophical writings; literary criticism; and extensive excerpts from Biographia Literaria, in which Coleridge interweaves aesthetics, metaphysics, and disarmingly candid autobiography.

Edited and with an introduction by the critic I.A. Richards, this volume vastly expands our understanding of a writer of visionary insight and protean range.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014015048X
• ISBN13: 9780140150483
• Release Date: March 1977
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

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.