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Informationen zum Autor Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) was a poet, critic, and philosopher of Romanticism. He and William Wordsworth published the LYRICAL BALLADS in 1799, marking a conscious break with 18th-century tradition. Richard Holmes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE. The first volume of his biography of Coleridge won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Klappentext With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as "the metaphysical dreamer" and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiographer of tremendous power and range. At the heart of Selected Poetry are the Conversation Poems, a unified and beautifully crafted autobiographical sequence written over a period of twelve years. A series of little-known love poems to Asra, which combine understated passion and desperate directness, reflect the depths of Coleridge's feelings for Sara Hutchinson, his unattainable lifelong love. The volume also includes the robust Hill Walking Poems, and the secret agony of the Confessional Poems, as well as previously undervalued later poetry born of Coleridge's restless old age and his ironic reflection on his life. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Zusammenfassung Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. This selection calls attention to the range of Coleridge's work, its autobiographical content, and its development throughout his career. Inhaltsverzeichnis Edited with an Introduction by Richard Holmes List of Poems Introduction The Poet's Chronology A Note on the Text Select Bibliography I. Sonnets II. Conversation Poems III. Ballads IV. Hill Walking Poems V. Asra Poems VI. Confessional Poems VII. Visionary Fragments VIII. Political, Ideological and Topical Poems Notes Index of Titles and First Lines LIST OF POEMS I. Sonnets 1. To the Autumnal Moon2. Life 3. On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death was Inevitable 4. On Quitting School for College 5. To the River Otter 6. To the Author of The Robbers 7. To the Rev. W.L. Bowles 8. Pantisocracy 9. Pity 10. On Receiving a Letter Informing me of the Birth of a Son 11. Composed on a Journey Homeward 12. To a Friend who Asked, How I Felt 13. On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country 14. To Asra 15. Lady, to Death we're Doomed... 16. Farewell to Love 17. Fancy in Nubibus 18. To Nature 19. Work Without Hope 20. Duty Surviving Self-Love 21. To the Young Artist II. Conversation Poems 22. To a Friend (Charles Lamb) 23. The Eolian Harp 24. Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 25. To the Rev. George Coleridge 26. This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 27. Frost at Midnight 28. Fears in Solitude 29. The Nightingale 30. To William Wordsworth III. Ballads 31. The Three Graves 32. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 33. Christabel 34. The Ballad of the Dark Ladié 35. Love36. Alice Du Clos IV. Hill Walking Poems 37. Lines Composed while Climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795 38. To a Young Friend on his Proposing to Domestica...
