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Selected Poetry

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ISBN-10: 0192832786

ISBN-13: 9780192832788

Edition: 1997

Authors: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. J. Jackson, H. J. Jackson

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $7.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/31/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.75" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Tracey Rowland holds the St John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Australia and is a member of the International Theological Commission.

H.J. Jackson is professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Introduction
Chronology
Note on the Text
Genevieve (1786-7? 1789-90?)p. 1
Epitaph on an Infant (1789-92)p. 1
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1790-4)p. 1
Sonnet: To the River Otter (1791?)p. 6
Songs of the Pixies (1793)p. 6
To a Young Ass (1794)p. 10
Sonnets on Eminent Characters (1794)p. 11
Religious Musings (1794-6)p. 13
To an Infant (1795)p. 23
Lines Written at Shurton Bars (1795)p. 24
The Eolian Harp (1795)p. 27
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement (1796)p. 29
Ode to the Departing Year (1796)p. 31
To the Rev. George Coleridge (1797)p. 36
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (1797)p. 38
The Wanderings of Cain (1797)p. 41
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter (1797?)p. 46
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797-8, 1817)p. 48
Christabel (1798, 1800)p. 68
Frost at Midnight (1798)p. 87
France. An Ode (1798)p. 89
Fears in Solitude (1798)p. 92
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem (1798)p. 98
Kubla Khan (1798)p. 101
Recantation (1798)p. 103
Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode (1799)p. 108
Love (1799)p. 109
Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1800)p. 112
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath (1801?)p. 112
Dejection: An Ode (1802)p. 113
Hymn Before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni (1802)p. 117
Answer to a Child's Question (1802)p. 119
The Knight's Tomb (1802?)p. 120
The Pains of Sleep (1803)p. 120
What is Life? (1804)p. 122
Constancy to an Ideal Object (1804-7? 1822?)p. 122
Metrical Feet (1806-7)p. 123
Time, Real and Imaginary (1806-7? 1811?)p. 124
To William Wordsworth (1807)p. 124
The Pang More Sharp Than All (1807? 1823? 1826?)p. 127
A Tombless Epitaph (1809)p. 129
The Visionary Hope (1810)p. 130
Limbo (1811)p. 131
Ne Plus Ultra (1811)p. 132
On Donne's Poetry (1811?)p. 132
Song from Zapolya (1815)p. 133
Hunting Song from Zapolya (1815)p. 133
Fancy in Nubibus (1817)p. 134
A Character (1819)p. 134
Youth and Age (1823)p. 137
Work Without Hope (1825)p. 138
Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius (1826?)p. 139
Duty Surviving Self-Love (1826)p. 140
The Improvisatore (1826?)p. 140
Alice Du Clos (1828-9?)p. 146
Self-Knowledge (1834?)p. 152
Love's Apparition and Evanishment (1833)p. 152
Epitaph (1833)p. 153
Effusion XXXV (1795)p. 154
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)p. 155
A Letter to - (1802)p. 176
Notesp. 187
Further Readingp. 195
Index of Titles and First Linesp. 198
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