Selected Poetry

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by H.J.JacksonSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence in the development of English poetry. As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by turns dramatist, political journalist, lecturer, and religious thinker. This edition includes his two most famous poems, KublaKhan and The Rime of the Ancient Manner, as well as such blank-verse `conversation5 poems as TheEolian Harp, This Lime Tree Bower My Prison, and Frost at Midnight. Not least of the attractions of Heather Jackson`s selection is the earlier version of the Rime which she presents in full, along with the later, better-known version. Demonstrating the diversity characteristic of Coleridge`s work, from early politically inspired sonnets to an epitaph he composed for himself shortly before his death, this substantial collection drawn from the Oxford Authors critical edition is supplemented by an introduction and notes.