ISBN Selected Poetry book 224 pages

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history and a shaping influence in the development of English poetry. As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by turns dramatist political journalist lecturer and religious thinker. This edition includes his two most famous poems Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well as such blank-verse `conversation' poems as The Eolian Harp This Lime Tree Bower My Prison and Frost at Midnight. Not least of the attractions of Heather Jackson's selection is the earlier version of the Rime which she presents in full along with the later better-known version. Demonstrating the diversity characteristic of Coleridge's work from early politically-inspired sonnets to an epitaph he composed for himself shortly before his death this substantial collection is supplemented by an introduction and notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more.