Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The story of Biographia Literaria begins in a conversation between two friends, Wordsworth (Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850) and Coleridge (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834), both settled in the Lake District after their return from Germany in 1799. They were debating what form a second edition of the Lyrical Ballads should take to replace the exhausted edition of 1798.--The Reading Warehouse.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an
...A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance literature.
4) Christabel
Christabel is a long narrative ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. Coleridge prepared for the first two parts to be published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, but on the advice of William Wordsworth it was left out; the exclusion of the poem, coupled with his inability
...La ballata del vecchio marinaio (titolo originale in inglese: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) è un poemetto scritto e ripreso più volte da Samuel Taylor Coleridge e pubblicato nel 1798 nell'introduzione della raccolta romantica Lyrical Ballads di William Wordsworth e racconta l'avventura straordinaria di un uomo di mare.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses. (From Wikipedia).
12) Kubla Khan
First published in 1816.
The text for this edition has been extracted from Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Select Poems, The Scribner English Classics, 1908.
17) Lyrical ballads
Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A hugely influential work, Lyrical Ballads is generally acknowledged to have started the Romantic movement in English literature—a period marked by a departure from the stiff and unapproachable poetry of earlier times, and by a focus on readable, relatable verse written in everyday language. Many of Wordsworth’s
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