Remembering Coleridge Essays Excerpts On The Life Works Of The English Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement. He was also a member of the famous Lake Poets, together with William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. Coleridge had a significant influence on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and American Transcendentalism in general, and played an important role in bringing German idealist philosophy to the English-speaking world. This fantastic volume contains a collection of classic essays, poems, and excerpts by various authors dedicated to the famous Romantic poet, perfect for students of English literature and others with an interest in poetry. Contents include: “To Coleridge, A Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley”, “Mr. Coleridge, by William Hazlitt”, “The Death of Coleridge, by Charles Lamb”, “On Coleridge, by John Gibson Lockhart”, “Coleridge, by Algernon Charles Swinburne”, “Notes on Coleridge, by Henry Duff Traill”, “Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Leslie Stephen", “Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as Told by Others”, “Coleridge, a Lecture by Leslie Stephen”, “Coleridge, by Walter Horatio Pater”, etc. Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic essays and excerpts now for the enjoyment of a new generation of students and literature lovers.

“Remembering Wordsworth” is a fantastic collection of essays and other assorted writings by various authors discussing the life and work of this seminal poet, not to be missed by lovers of poetry and those with an interest Wordsworth's life both public and private. Contents include: “William Wordsworth, by Hattie Tyng Griswold”, “WM. Wordsworth, by Elbert Hubbard”, “Wordsworth’s Poetry, Delivered Extempore At Manchester, by George Macdonald”, “In Wordsworth's Country, by John Burroughs”, “William Wordsworth, by Henry Cabot Lodge & Francis W. Halsey”, “Wordsworth, by Walter Horatio Pater”, “The English Lakes, by F. W. H. Myers”, “Wordsworth, by John Morley”, etc. William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet famous for helping to usher in the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of “Lyrical Ballads” (1798), which he co-wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His best known work is perhaps “The Prelude”, a semi-autobiographical poem from his early years which was changed and expanded many times throughout his life. He was poet laureate of Britain between 1843 until his death in 1850.

The brilliant English author's life, achievements, and thoughts are re-examined by a group of distinguished poets.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Emerson, and American transcendentalism. Coleridge is one of the most important figures in English poetry. His poems directly and deeply influenced all the major poets of the age. He was known by his contemporaries as a meticulous craftsman who was more rigorous in his careful reworking of his poems than any other poet, and Southey and Wordsworth were dependent on his professional advice. Table of Contents: Biographia Literaria (By Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Anima Poetae (By Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Bibliographia Epistolaris (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Complete Letters of S. T. Coleridge The Spirit of the Age: Mr. Coleridge by William Hazlitt A Day With Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Byron The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James Gillman

Over 11,000 of these 18,000 quotations have never before appeared in a quotation book. Chosen not for their familiarity but for their quality and their relevance in the 1990s, these provocative quotations cover subjects from adolescence and adoption to yuppies and zoos.

In a tolerably well-known passage in one of his essays De Quincey enumerates the multiform attainments and powers of Coleridge, and the corresponding varieties of demand made by them on any one who should aspire to become this many-sided man's biographer. The description is slightly touched with the humorous hyperbole characteristic of its author; but it is in substance just, and I cannot but wish that it were possible, within the limits of a preface, to set out the whole of it in excuse for the many inevitable shortcomings of this volume. Having thus made an "exhibit" of it, there would only remain to add that the difficulties with which De Quincey confronts an intending biographer of Coleridge must necessarily be multiplied many-fold by the conditions under which this work is here attempted.