Coleridge: Select Poetry & Prose
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in the English literary canon cast as long a shadow as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the visionary Romantic whose hallucinatory imagery and philosophical restlessness forever altered the landscape of British poetry. This curated anthology, edited by Stephen Potter, presents a carefully chosen selection of Coleridge's most celebrated verse — including the spectral grandeur of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the dreamlike fragment Kubla Khan — alongside his remarkably lucid and penetrating prose, offering readers a panoramic view of one of the nineteenth century's most formidable intellects. Potter's editorial hand is both scholarly and sympathetic, illuminating the tension at the heart of Coleridge's genius: a mind of extraordinary critical acuity perpetually at war with its own creative demons. The selection draws together the lyrical and the theoretical, chronicling the full arc of a writer who was simultaneously a poet of supernatural wonder and a foundational critic of English literature. Published by the distinguished Nonesuch Press, this edition is as much a collector's artefact as a literary compendium — and for any reader who has yet to surrender to Coleridge's intoxicating world, it stands as an irresistible invitation.
Author: Stephen Potter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, The Nonesuch Press
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures in the English literary canon cast as long a shadow as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the visionary Romantic whose hallucinatory imagery and philosophical restlessness forever altered the landscape of British poetry. This curated anthology, edited by Stephen Potter, presents a carefully chosen selection of Coleridge's most celebrated verse — including the spectral grandeur of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the dreamlike fragment Kubla Khan — alongside his remarkably lucid and penetrating prose, offering readers a panoramic view of one of the nineteenth century's most formidable intellects. Potter's editorial hand is both scholarly and sympathetic, illuminating the tension at the heart of Coleridge's genius: a mind of extraordinary critical acuity perpetually at war with its own creative demons. The selection draws together the lyrical and the theoretical, chronicling the full arc of a writer who was simultaneously a poet of supernatural wonder and a foundational critic of English literature. Published by the distinguished Nonesuch Press, this edition is as much a collector's artefact as a literary compendium — and for any reader who has yet to surrender to Coleridge's intoxicating world, it stands as an irresistible invitation.