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Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject-matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's and Coleridge's other major poems were central to the Romantic period and remain classic texts in our own time. Wordsworth focuses on the essential passions of the heart and achieves a penetrating insight into love and death, solitude and community. Coleridge explores a more fantastic and dreamlike imagination, and also writes poems of quiet, conversational mediation. Both poets look with a fresh and visionary eye at the human and natural world. They examine the condition of men and women at the extreme edge of society: they are also subtle analysts of their own minds and the processes of introspection and memory. This volume contains all of Lyrical Ballads (1798) with Wordsworth's Preface of 1800/1802, and a wide ranging selection of both poets other work across their poetic careers, including virtually all their best known and most discussed shorter poems.
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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT
• MARINER KUBLA KHAN
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FROST AT MIDNIGHT
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THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON
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DEJECTION: AN ODE
The poetic output of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was modest and fragmentary, but included some of the greatest poems of the Romantic period. On this recording Sir Ralph Richardson reads five of Coleridge's finest works, ranging in style from the haunting narrative of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' to the dark and mysterious 'Kubla Khan' and the quietly reflective 'Frost at Midnight'.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this because it had a couple of poems I wanted to read again - Khubla Khan, & the Ancient Mariner, so I wasn't disappointed. However, there are many many more verses in this edition which are well worth reading, and quite haunting in their own way. I thoroughly recommend this edition.
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A nondescript paperback but packed with great poetry [much of which is still surprisingly relevant today] in a comprehensive and well laid out edition. The introduction and notes provide some useful background to the poems, adding interest to a home copy and making it cheap and useful starting point for academic study.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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but its still the best attempt at a study guide for lyrical ballads ive seen. it has a summary of each poem which is useful and a short glossary of words that might seem hard.
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