In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
-- Kubla Khan
Daugiau informacijos
This new selection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry is part of a series of collections from six great nature poets.
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[ 1] `I know tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish' |
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[ 3] `The reed roof'd Village still bepatch'd with snow' |
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[ 4] `Let Eagles bid the Tortoise sunward soar --' |
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[ 5] `Come, come, thou bleak December Wind' |
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[ 6] `I have experienc'd/ The worst, the World can wreak on me' |
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[ 7] `A sumptuous and magnificent revenge' |
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[ 8] `In the corner one --' |
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[ 9] `Tho' hid in spiral myrtle Wreath' |
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[ 10] `A low dead Thunder muttered thro' the Night' |
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`Nature! sweet Nurse! O take me in thy lap --' |
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`The Day of our dire Fate as yet but dawns' |
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[ 11] `Water and Windmills, Greenness, Islets Green' |
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[ 12] `I stand alone, nor tho' my Heart should break' |
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[ 13] `Truth I pursued, as Fancy sketch'd the way' |
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[ 14] `O mercy! O me miserable man!' |
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[ 15] `Seaward, white-gleaming thro' the busy Scud' |
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[ 16] `Twas not a mist, nor was it quite a cloud' |
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`-- one black-blue Cloud' |
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[ 17] `Over the broad tho' shallow, rapid Stream' |
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[ 18] `O'er hung with Yew, midway the Muses' Mount' |
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[ 19] Kubla Khan [ Coleridge's fair copy] |
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[ 20] Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream |
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[ 24] This Lime-tree Bower my Prison |
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[ 26] A Letter to -- (`Well! if the Bard was weatherwise, who made') |
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[ 28] The Ancyent Marinere [ 1798] |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, the youngest son of a clergyman. He first met Dorothy and William Wordsworth in 1797 and a close association developed between them, issuing in their groundbreaking joint-publication, Lyrical Ballads, in 1799. Coleridge subsequently settled in the Lake District , and thereafter in London. He died in 1834, having overseen a final edition of his Poetical Works. As poet, philosopher and critic, Coleridge stands as one of the seminal figures of his time.
