The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Volume II

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley Coleridge (Editor)

The definitive scholarly Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1912, was edited by the poet's grandson, Ernest Hartley Coleridge. Volume II contains all the verse dramas (The Fall of Robespierre, The Piccolomini, The Death of Wallenstein, Remorse and Zapolya), epigrams and jeux d'esprit as well as various fragments, metrical experiments, first drafts, adaptations, bibliography and other appendices. Copious footnotes record textual variations and comments on the text. This new edition has been carefully hand-edited to be clear and complete.

Genres: Poetry

908 pages, Hardcover

First published March 23, 2011

About the author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.

Reviews

[Bob G · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think he did some very good work. I liked Rime of the Ancient Mariner which I read a couple of years ago. I like a few of the poems in the complete works. Some I liked in particular, ...

The Gentle Look
To an Infant
Composed While Climbing The Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire
The Eolian Harp
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
Kubla Khan
The Nightingale
...

And now that I look over the bookmarks I made for this e-book, I realize I liked far more than I remembered. There are many gems here.