Samuel Taylor Coleridge

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798.

This new edition of Coleridge's famous poem examines in depth all the topics an A level student needs to cover. However, the book is also aimed at the general reader as it avoids specialist terms. It enhances enjoyment of the poem by encouraging readers to explore different ideas and interpretations. The engravings of Gustave Dore provide atmospheric illustrations. The poem is printed in full, with the marginal notes provided by Coleridge. There is a summary of each part of the poem, as well as a commentary to aid understanding. There are also chapters on topics which will interest the general reader as well as being useful for students of the text.

The Poems Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a collection of poetry written by the famous English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This book includes some of his most well-known works such as ""Kubla Khan"", ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"", and ""Christabel"". The poems in this collection are known for their vivid imagery, complex themes, and lyrical language. Coleridge was a key figure in the Romantic movement and his poetry often explores themes of nature, imagination, and the supernatural. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in English literature and the Romantic period. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A sailor dooms his ship's crew by murdering an albatross and is lost at sea, alone with the burden of his guilt, until a meeting with divine messengers brings him the opportunity to do penance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's (1772-1834) haunting parable of sin and absolution, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is widely recognized as one of the greatest narrative poems in the English language and was a defining achievement in the establishment of the Romantic Movement. Coleridge's text is presented here alongside the classic illustrations of Gustave Dor (1832-1883), the great French engraver famous for his illustrations of Dante's Inferno, Milton's Paradise Lost, and the Bible. His imaginative and detailed illustrations are a beautiful and evocative visual compliment to this unique masterpiece of English literature.

This is the longest of Coleridge's major poems. In 1817, Coleridge wrote the following about the poem in his Biographia Literaria: The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural, and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life... In this idea originated the plan of the 'Lyrical Ballads'; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least Romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ... With this view I wrote the 'Ancient Mariner' This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.