Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Selected Poems

Posted on 22 March 2018 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From the time he was very young, Coleridge hoped he would be remembered as a poet masterpieces such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Frost at Midnight assured that his dream would come true These verses, and the 32 others in this extraordinary collection, testify to the genius and power of his writing From the time Coleridge produced his first volume of poetry in 1796 till his death in 1834, he created works as diverse as The Eolian Harp, which begins as a sweet love poem but by the end becomes something much To a Critic, a sharp rebuke to those who cruelly tear apart and misinterpret the poet s work and the unfinished narrative verse, Christabel. New Read Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Selected Poems [ By ] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I read quite a bit of poetry, but it is usually of the epic or at least narrative variety with plenty of battles and or bickering gods Normally, too much overly flowery poetry makes me want to gag For some reason last time I was at the library I decided to read some classic English poetry Maybe I subconsciously wanted a balance to the blunt prose and academic jargon of the other two books I was reading and maybe it was just because an episode of Blackadder that I had recently watched featur I read quite a bit of poetry, but it is usually of the epic or at least narrative variety with plenty of battles and or bickering gods Normally, too much overly flowery poetry makes me want to gag For some reason last time I was at the library I decided to read some classic English poetry Maybe I subconsciously wanted a balance to the blunt prose and academic jargon of the other two books I was reading and maybe it was just because an episode of Blackadder that I had recently watched featured several foppish, stoned poets Whatever the reason, I ended up reading a collection of Coleridge s best poems.Since he is one of the fathers of the romantic movement there was plenty of swooning and gushing over almost divine nature, unrequited love, lost youth, etc Some of the language was beautiful and some was gag me with sentiment over the top, but I found the spiritual musings woven throughout the poems to be very interesting as they ranged from quasi pantheis...Years ago I read, and enjoyed, some of Coleridge s journals These poems reacquainted me with the well known ones Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan as well as introducing me to ones that I didn t know but enjoyed on a first reading Thi...I have to confess that Romantic Poetry is not my bailiwickpoetry of any kind is mostly beyond me, even though I d like to beappreciative But, Coleridge happens to have written two poems that I do appreciate, which was the reason for picking up this slim volume of his selected poetry The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan And, as I had started reading The Road to Xanadu A Study in the Ways of the Imagination by John Livingston Lowes which traces the sources Coleridge used in I have to confess that Romantic Poetry is not my bailiwickpoetry of any kind is mostly beyond me, even though I d like to beappreciative But, Coleridge happens to have written two poems that I do appreciate, which was the reason for picking up this slim volume of his selected poetry The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan And, as I had started reading The Road to Xanadu A Study in the Ways of the Imagination by John Livingston Lowes which traces the sources Coleridge used in these two of his most fa...The three greats are here Kubla Khan in 2 versions , Christabel and Ancyent Marinere the first version Also the near great Pains of Sleep and the famous but less impressive Dejection An Ode 2 versions , This Lime Tre...Christabel, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Kubla Khan are Coleridge s finest works A few like Lewti and To a Critic are witty, and the former only at the end But when Coleridge waxes overly sanctimonious or...My one quarrel with Coleridge is that, somehow, his verse is much harder to memorize than, for instance, Wordsworth Except for the very beginning of Kubla Kahn, which is awesome I can t think of nuffin I have no idea why He s great though the stor...Never much for poetry during school but this book was on table at job placement centre for free so I took it Two of the poems inspired two of my favourite rock songs 1 Kubla Khan inspiration for Xanadu by Rush and 2 Rime of the Ancient Mariner inspiration for song of the same name by Iron Maiden.Enjoyed Coleridge s Poetry For AS we focused on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner This was a great accompanying text and really helped with my studies Another triumph from York Notes However, a newer edition would have been nicer.One of my favorite Romantics If only his powers of discipline had been stronger Kubla Khan, Christabel , but the Rime redeems all.Let me be awake, my God Or let me sleep away

22 March 2018

Samuel Taylor Coleridge