Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Samuel Taylor Coleridge is author of some of the best-known verse in the English language - 'Kubla Khan', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'Christabel', 'Frost at Midnight' - and, with Wordsworth, co-author of Lyrical Ballads, one of the most momentous collaborations in English poetry. One of England's most dazzling literary critics. Coleridge was also a profound theorist of the imagination, as well as philosopher, theologian, activist and political commentator, psychologist, journalist, nature-writer, autobiographer - and the greatest talker of his age." "However, for all his extraordinary achievements, Coleridge never lost a burden of lonely inadequacy, sometimes deepening to the terrible isolation and despair to which 'The Ancient Mariner' bears witness. At the same time, few writers have responded to their experience of the world with more spontaneous love and delight. Instinctively solitary yet needily dependent, passionately emotional yet intensely cerebral, exuberant yet melancholy. Coleridge is unique: 'Never saw I his likeness', wrote Charles Lamb, 'nor probably the world can see again'."--BOOK JACKET. |
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THE YOUNGEST SON 17721794 | 9 |
THE PANTISOCRAT 17941797 | 23 |
WORDSWORTH 17971799 | 31 |
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