Selected Poetry by Samuel Coleridge - ISBN: 9780140424294
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Revolutionary poet explores love, nature, and politics in diverse verse.

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    400 pages

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    17 April 2000

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Summary

Poems organised according to genre, to demonstrate the progress and variety Coleridge achieved

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, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140424294
ISBN-10:0140424296
Author:Samuel Coleridge, Richard Holmes
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Edition:1st
Release Date:17 April 2000
Weight:294g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 20mm
Series:Penguin Classics
About The Author

Samuel Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) was a poet, critic, and philosopher of Romanticism. He and William Wordsworth published the LYRICAL BALLADS in 1799, marking a conscious break with 18th-century tradition. Richard Holmes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE. The first volume of his biography of Coleridge won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize.

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