Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Introduces the life of author Samuel Taylor Coleridge and presents a sample of his poetry, including complete works and excerpts, with a brief, explanatory introduction to each.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement. He was also a member of the famous Lake Poets, together with William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. Coleridge had a significant influence on the the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and American Transcendentalism in general, and also played an important role in bringing German idealist philosophy to the English-speaking...

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...

Collected together in this collection are the most famous of all the poems written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This includes the following: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, The Eolian Harp, Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Frost at Midnight, Fears in Solitude, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode, The Pains of Sleep, and To William Wordsworth. Written between 1795 and 1807 these...

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...

'Is it true that I am unfriendly to (what is called) Catholic Emancipation ? I reply : No ! The contrary is the truth. There is no inconsistency, however, in approving the thing, and yet having my doubt respecting the manner; in desiring the same end, and yet scrupling the means proposed for its attainment. When you are called in to a consultation, you may perfectly agree with another physician, respecting the existence of the malady and the expedience...

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic poem about a sailor who shot an albatross and the woe that followed him afterwards. Narrated by professional voice actor Jake Phillips, host of The Cultured Bumpkin literature podcast.

In this illustrated edition of the classic poem, a sailor recounts the terrible fate that befell his ship when he shot down an albatross.