The Portable Coleridge

The Portable Coleridge

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Author: Taylor Coleridge, Samuel
ISBN: 9780140150483
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 31 Mar 1977
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback / softback

A collection of poems, letters, and writings from one of the most versatile and influential forces of English romanticism

Chronically impoverished, tormented by self-doubt and a crippling addiction to opium, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) still managed to become one of the most prominent figures in English literature.

The Portable Coleridge faithfully represents all facets of this complex, haunted genius, including his poems, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Christabel," "Kubla Khan," and "Dejection"; letters to friends and colleagues such as Robert Southey and William Godwin; selections from Notebooks and Table Talk; political and philosophical writings; literary criticism; and extensive excerpts from Biographia Literaria, in which Coleridge interweaves aesthetics, metaphysics, and disarmingly candid autobiography.

Edited and with an introduction by the critic I.A. Richards, this volume vastly expands our understanding of a writer of visionary insight and protean range.

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