Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrator: Michael Sheen, John Moffatt, Sarah Woodward, Anton Lesser, David Timson, and Benjamin Soames

Unabridged: 1 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 04/26/2010

Synopsis

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend William Wordsworth, revolutionised English poetry; in 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using ‘the language of men’. They pointed the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets. Coleridge’s addiction to opium affected his poetic output, and yet the handful of poems he did produce were innovative. These ranged from the quietly conversational to the wildly imagined, and include two of the greatest in English literature: Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was born in Ottery, UK. A poet, philosopher, theologian, and literary critic, he was seminal to the development of the Romantic Movement, along with his friend William Wordsworth. Coleridge contributed to English Literature with many works, including the famous “Kubla Khan” and “Frost At Midnight”. He died in Highgate, London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by russell

Christ, no wonder my Poetry and Revolution essays at college were so piss-poor! It's taken me almost a year to finish this collection (admittedly only dipping in every now and then), and reading the prose took me back 15 years to those halcyon times sat in a hot lecture room, listening to Wynn Thoma......more

Goodreads review by philosovamp

Coleridge is probably my favorite poet, and there's a lot of really great poems in this volume. I then discovered he's not my favorite critic or theorist or philosopher or any of the other shit he was doing in Biographia. Interesting though, respectable though. Still interested in a biography or two......more

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