Great title poem plus "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," 20 other sonnets, lyrics, odes: "Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me," "Frost at Midnight," "The Nightingale," "The Pains of Sleep," "To William Wordsworth," "Youth and Age," many more. All are reprinted from an authoritative edition published by Oxford University Press. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Great Short Collection:
This collection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work is a fantastic snapshot of the great romantic poet. Included in it are his two great poems, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." Additionally, my two favorites, "Lewti" and "Love" are in the collection. Coleridge builds amazing worlds from his education and his opium habit that still astound the reader. Anyone who is looking to read some Coleridge should pick this one up.
Other Books:
A good cheap trippy collection from Dover, is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, and that is how we like our poetry, cheap. This includes quite a few, and has Kubla Khan, if it didn't, I certainly would not have purchased it. So if you are after the title track and that so to speak, this one will do you.
Wherefore thou stoppest thou me?:
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is a haunting and strange poem. The great memorable lines of the opening , ' It is an ancient mariner / and he stoppeth one of three/ by the long grey beard and thy glittering eye / wherefore thou stoppest thou me?/ lead us to a kind of enchanted and impossible world. The tale itself of the slaying of the albatross of the cosmic coordination in response to the evil of Man has a certain Biblical flavor which connects the story with Jonah . The work as a whole I have always... more info
Blehh...:
This is BORING. You have to practically stagger through it, and the poetry makes it even harder. The albatross was a curse, or whatever, but I wouldn't recommend this.
