- Paperback: 752 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (6 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192840436
- ISBN-13: 978-0192840431
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 12.8 x 5.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 672,935 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Coleridge's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important criticism, letters, and marginalia - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as different as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English thought. This collection represents the best of Coleridge's poetry from every period of his life, particularly his prolific early years, which produced The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan. The central section of the book is devoted to his most significant critical work, Biographia Literaria, and reproduces it in full. It provides a vital background for both the poetry section which precedes it and for the shorter prose works which follow. There is also a generous sample of his letters, notebooks, and marginalia, some recently discovered, which show a different, more spontaneous side to his fascinating and complex personality.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This edition includes not only the unavoidable "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Christabel", and "Kubla Khan", but also Coledridge's long aesthetical study, the "Biographia Literaria", in full (just for this treat, these "Major Works" would be worth buying) and some of his letters, notebooks and marginalia...not to mention selections from "The Friend" and the "Lay Sermons".
Why don't I rate it with 5 stars? First of all, I believe this anthology would definitely gain from a fuller critical apparatus. Then, it'd do no harm to include the two versions of "The Ancient Mariner", as well as "Dejection: a Letter". Last but not least, I think the selections from Coleridge's "Table Talk" and "Lectures on Shakespeare" (in spite of their apocryphal nature) should have been more generous.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
great collection, weak binding
20 Feb 2010
Format:Paperback
this is an excellent collection of coleridge--i used it for my MA thesis and it had all the major works that i needed. i was extremely disappointed in the binding, however. it is not the usual OWC binding, which is one of my favorites, but a cheaper, less resiliant one. for a collection of this size, this is somewhat problematic.
5 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Good collection of Coleridge's works
14 Oct 2006
Format:Paperback
S.T. Coleridge is an interesting poetic figure. An opium addict who imaged an imaginary country called 'Xanadu', based on an Asian legend about one of the descendants of Genghis Khan, Coleridge's visions are very scattered and lacking in unity. His poems, while some soar to great heights, are often confusing or pedestrian, and in this regard he is a lesser poet than Blake or Milton.
Despite this and his constant dabblings in various religions and his unsystematic attempts to grasp a deep unity in the universe and in all knowledge in the realm of the spirit, along with some beautiful poems like the Ancient Mariner and some good essays and prose works (such as the Biographia) make Coleridge an essential part of any canon of English literature. He is a genius, even if not an outstanding one, and worth reading at least once.
The Oxford Collections are generally of very high standard and worth purchasing for every canonical author.
Despite this and his constant dabblings in various religions and his unsystematic attempts to grasp a deep unity in the universe and in all knowledge in the realm of the spirit, along with some beautiful poems like the Ancient Mariner and some good essays and prose works (such as the Biographia) make Coleridge an essential part of any canon of English literature. He is a genius, even if not an outstanding one, and worth reading at least once.
The Oxford Collections are generally of very high standard and worth purchasing for every canonical author.
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