Coleridge: Select Poetry Prose Letters
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few literary figures cast as long and luminous a shadow as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Romantic visionary whose poetry, prose, and letters together constitute one of the most astonishing intellectual legacies in the English language. This carefully curated anthology, edited by Stephen Potter, brings together a definitive selection of Coleridge's verse — including the spectral dream-world of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the haunting, unfinished Kubla Khan — alongside his penetrating prose criticism and intimate personal letters, presenting the full spectrum of a restless, transcendent mind. Potter's editorial hand is both scholarly and sympathetic, illuminating the profound tension at the heart of Coleridge's life: the collision between soaring imaginative genius and the crushing weight of personal struggle, addiction, and self-doubt. The collection argues, through its very architecture, that Coleridge's letters and critical writings are as indispensable to understanding Romanticism as his celebrated verse. Spanning the sublime to the confessional, this volume leaves the reader with an urgent question — how does a mind of such extraordinary power remain so hauntingly, recognisably human?
Author: Stephen Potter (Editor)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Nonesuch Press
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few literary figures cast as long and luminous a shadow as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Romantic visionary whose poetry, prose, and letters together constitute one of the most astonishing intellectual legacies in the English language. This carefully curated anthology, edited by Stephen Potter, brings together a definitive selection of Coleridge's verse — including the spectral dream-world of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the haunting, unfinished Kubla Khan — alongside his penetrating prose criticism and intimate personal letters, presenting the full spectrum of a restless, transcendent mind. Potter's editorial hand is both scholarly and sympathetic, illuminating the profound tension at the heart of Coleridge's life: the collision between soaring imaginative genius and the crushing weight of personal struggle, addiction, and self-doubt. The collection argues, through its very architecture, that Coleridge's letters and critical writings are as indispensable to understanding Romanticism as his celebrated verse. Spanning the sublime to the confessional, this volume leaves the reader with an urgent question — how does a mind of such extraordinary power remain so hauntingly, recognisably human?