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Selected PoemsSamuel Taylor ColeridgeEdited by William Empson and David Pirie
Categories: 18th Century, 19th Century
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (220 pages) (Pub. Nov 1989) 9780856358159 Out of Stock
...that hour I would wish'd to die.
If thro'the shuddering midnight I had sent From the dark dungeon of the Tower time-rent That fearful voice, a famish'd Father's cry - Lest in some aftre moment aught more mean Might stamp me mortal! A triumphant shout Black Horror scream'd, and all her goblin rout Diminish'd shrunk from the withering scene! from To the Author of 'The Robbers'
In this unusual selection, one of the great poet-critics of the twentieth century encounters and re-appraises the greatest poet-critic of the nineteenth. William Empson, assisted by David Pirie, chooses from Coleridge's vast and uneven ouevre the salient poems, and edits and annotates them. Here is a classic example of Empson's techniques of creative and scholarly reading and the best possible introduction to the work of one of the most haunting poets in the English language.
'The pith of my system,' says Coleridge, 'is to make the senses out of mind - not the mind out of the senses, as Locke did.'
Table of Contents
Introduction by William Empson To the Author of 'The Robbers' Monologue to a Young Jack Ass in Jesus Piece The Eolian Harp From Reflections on Entering into Active Life From Religious Musings From The Destiny of Nations This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison The Foster-mother's Tale The Dungeon On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christabel Fire, Famine and Slaughter Frost at Midnight From Fears in Solitude The Nightingale Kubla Khan Lines Composed in a Concert-Room Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie The Mad Monk A Letter to.... Chamouny; the Hour Before Sunrise The Pains of Sleep Phantom Psyche Human Life On Donne's Poetry Work Without Hope Song Epitaph Fragments Textual Commentary by David Pirie Notes by David Pirie Index of First Lines Illustrations 1. The Sailors and the Albatross 2. Why We Omit the Marginal Glosses |
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