Coleridge S Later Poetry

The poems that Coleridge wrote after his 'golden' period are seldom studied or anthologized. Yet, among the poems written after his most famous works are many of quality and interest, addressing such universal themes as the nature of the self and the experience of unfulfilled love. Paley examines the later verse in the context of Coleridge's oeuvre, discusses what characterizes it, and looks at why the poet felt he had to develop distinctively different modes of writing for these works. 'To William Wordsworth' is presented as a transitional poem, exhibiting the vatic quality of earlier poems even while declaring that this quality must be abandoned. Morton D. Paley then explores the poetry of the abyss (which he terms 'The Limbo Constellation'), and this is followed by poems on the theme of the self and of love. The last chapter examines the role of epitaphs in the later works, culminating in a study of the epitaph that Coleridge wrote for himself.

Like no other poet Coleridge was, in five short years, "visited by the Muse". The great flowering of his poetry happened all, in the single year from the summer of 1797 when he first became friends with Dorothy and William Wordsworth. That was the year in which he wrote The Ancient Mariner, the first part of Christable, Kubla Khan and other poems that were, as Kathleen Raine writes, "the works not of his talent but of his genius".As well as Coleridge's finest poems, this Penguin edition contains selections from his letters and his main critical writings, including extracts from Biographia Literaria and several of his revolutionary essays on Shakespeare.

A stunning collection of poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, including his most famous works such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan', and 'Christabel'. These poems range in theme from love to nature, imagination to duty, and life to death. Each one is a journey through the vivid mind of one of the greatest poets in English literature. With masterful use of language and a deep understanding of the human experience, Coleridge's works will touch your heart and stay with you long after the last page is turned. Here's an excerpt from 'Kubla Khan' to show Coleridge's prowess as a poet: " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man."

Reproduction of the original: Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge has been perceived as the youthful author of a few brilliant poems. This study argues that his poetry is actually a continuous process of experimentation and provides a new perspective on both familiar and unfamiliar poems, as well as the relation between Coleridge's poetry and philosophical thinking.

As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by turns dramatist, political journalist, lecturer, and religious thinker. This edition includes his two most famous poems, Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as well as such blank-verse 'conversation' poems as The Eolian Harp, This Lime Tree Bower My Prison, and Frost at Midnight. Not least of the attractions of Heather Jackson's selection is the earlier version of the Rime which she presents in full, along with the later, better-known version. Demonstrating the diversity characteristic of Coleridge's work, from early politically-inspired sonnets to an epitaph he composed for himself shortly before his death, this substantial collection is supplemented by an introduction and notes.

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