Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Book Overview

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192840436
• ISBN13: 9780192840431
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.5" x 4.9"

Customer Reviews

great collection, weak binding

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.

Good collection of Coleridge's works

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.