Selected Poetry
$34.89
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
17 April 2000
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 |
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| 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 |
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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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