Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel (1898)

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Kessinger Publishing, 2009 - 152 sidor
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan And Christabel is a book that features three of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's most famous poems. The first poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, tells the story of a sailor who shoots an albatross and brings a curse upon his ship and crew. The second poem, Kubla Khan, is a dream-like vision of a magnificent palace and gardens created by the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. The third poem, Christabel, is a Gothic tale of a young woman who encounters a supernatural being in the forest. Coleridge's use of vivid imagery, supernatural themes, and complex symbolism in these poems have made them enduring classics of English literature. This edition of the book was published in 1898 and includes notes and annotations to help readers better understand the poems.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.

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Born in Ottery St. Mary, England, in 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge studied revolutionary ideas at Cambridge before leaving to enlist in the Dragoons. After his plans to start a communist society in the United States with his friend Robert Southey, later named poet laureate of England, were botched, Coleridge instead turned his attention to teaching and journalism in Bristol. Coleridge married Southey's sister-in-law Sara Fricker, and they moved to Nether Stowey, where they became close friends with William and Dorothy Wordsworth. From this friendship a new poetry emerged, one that focused on Neoclassic artificiality. In later years, their relationship became strained, partly due to Coleridge's moral collapse brought on by opium use, but more importantly because of his rejection of Wordworth's animistic views of nature. In 1809, Coleridge began a weekly paper, The Friend, and settled in London, writing and lecturing. In 1816, he published Kubla Kahn. Coleridge reported that he composed this brief fragment, considered by many to be one of the best poems ever written lyrically and metrically, while under the influence of opium, and that he mentally lost the remainder of the poem when he roused himself to answer an ill-timed knock at his door. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and his sonnet Ozymandias are all respected as inventive and widely influential Romantic pieces. Coleridge's prose works, especially Biographia Literaria, were also broadly read in his day. Coleridge died in 1834.

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