Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The story of Biographia Literaria begins in a conversation between two friends, Wordsworth (Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850) and Coleridge (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834), both settled in the Lake District after their return from Germany in 1799. They were debating what form a second edition of the Lyrical Ballads should take to replace the exhausted edition of 1798.--The Reading Warehouse.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an

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Between the years of 1797-1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote what are considered his most important poetic works. Among them are the famous "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," and "Christabel." Also during this period he wrote his much-heralded "conversation poems" of which includes "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "Frost at Midnight," and "The Nightingale." These great poems can all be found in this volume along with many others. Forty-one...

A landmark book, published in 1840, six years after Coleridge's death, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit is a major contribution to both theological and philosophical reflection within Romanticism. Confessions focuses on the question of Scriptural infallibility, protesting blind and uncritical worship of the Scriptures, and plays a central role in the development of biblical criticism.

H. J. Jackson is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books and coeditor of Coleridge's Marginalia (Princeton). Coleridge is such a celebrity that many who have never read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" have a fair idea who he was, and yet the common impression of him is not flattering. He is typically seen as a youthful genius transformed by drugs and philosophy into a tedious...

Kubla Khan is a poem composed one night after Samuel Taylor Coleridge experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.

The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. All of these poets are featured in this collection of more than 50 poems read by award-winning actors that include Joan Allen, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Glenda Jackson, and Jude Law.

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A mariner appears on a park bench and begins his tale. Cursed by an albatross he slew whilst hunting whales, the mariner and his crew find themselves stranded within the North Pacific Garbage Patch: a vast, hypoxic, slow-whirling maelstrom of plastic waste; a hidden repository for the world's litter. Along the way, he meets various characters of our current environmental tragedy: a lady made of oil, a deserted ghost-ship drilling barge, a 2-inch salp...