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Rime Of The Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of all Mr. Coleridge’s productions, the Ancient Mariner is the only one that we could with confidence put into any person’s hands, on whom we wished to impress a favourable idea of his extraordinary powers. Let whatever other objections be made to it, it is unquestionably a work of genius—of wild, irregular, overwhelming imagination, and has that rich, varied movement in the verse, which gives a distant idea of the lofty or changeful tones of Mr. Coleridge’s voice.

Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.

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Coleridge’s comments to his masterpiece (from wikipedia)

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The Letters Volume 2 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This edition, originally published in 1895, has been one of the first attempts made to publish a collection of Coleridge’s letters. The selection has been made from a great mass of correspondence, written to his family, to Southey, De Quincey and other literary contemporaries. The letters are arranged in chronological order, and are intended rather to illustrate the story of the writer’s life than to embody his critical opinions, or to record the development of his philosophlcal and theological speculations. The sole criterium in the selection has been the letters’ interest. A page of authorities is also given. This is volume 2 out of 2.

The Letters Volume 2

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The Letters Volume 1 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This edition, originally published in 1895, has been one of the first attempts made to publish a collection of Coleridge’s letters. The selection has been made from a great mass of correspondence, written to his family, to Southey, De Quincey and other literary contemporaries. The letters are arranged in chronological order, and are intended rather to illustrate the story of the writer’s life than to embody his critical opinions, or to record the development of his philosophlcal and theological speculations. The sole criterium in the selection has been the letters’ interest. A page of authorities is also given. This is volume 1 out of 2.

The Letters Volume 1

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The Essential Poems – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Endowed with an intellect of the first order, and an imagination at once delicate and splendid, Coleidge, from a weakness of moral constitution and his lamentable habit, fell far short of the performance which he had planned, and which included various epic poems, and a complete system of philosophy, in which all knowledge was to be co-ordinated. He has, however, left enough poetry of such excellence as to place him in the first rank of English poets. This edition includes his masterpieces, in the first rank his “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

The Essential Poems

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The Essential Poems.

ISBN: 9783849673468.

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Lyrical Ballads – Samuel Taylor Coleridge / William Wordsworth

The Ballad as a humble literary type had a certain vogue towards the end of the eighteenth century. It covered the crudest realism as well as the most fantastical romance, and varied in style and treatment as widely as in subject-matter and level of culture. But it hardly held full rank as serious poetry. It was not considered to belong to the literature of culture, but rather to the ruder poetry of the common people. Hence the very title of the new ‘experiment’, Lyrical Ballads, marked somewhat emphatically the limited pretensions of the supposed single author. In this volume Coleridge as well as Wordsworth joined literary forces.

Lyrical Ballads

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Aids to Reflection – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In 1825 Coleridge published his Aids to Reflection, a commentary in the form of aphorisms and selected passages from the writings of Archbishop Leighton. The Aids, which may be regarded as an eirenicon between faith and reason, and at one time served as a kind of manual of liberal orthodoxy, brought their compiler applause and recognition, and since his death have been frequently republished. The Aids to Reflection and the posthumous Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840) have been largely instrumental in deepening and widening religious thought within and without the pale of the Churches.

Aids to Reflection

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Aids to Reflection.

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