The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Read in February, 1997
I feel like a hypocrite adding this, since its a collected edition and I'm only really a fan of a few of his poems.
The thing is, the few I'm a fan of are some of the best poems I've ever read. 'Rime', 'Aeolian Harp', 'Frost At Midnight'....
He could barely contain the imagination he held so close in some of these masterpieces. Read him at his best and you won't be dissapointed.
He used to walk fervently up the street, conversation companion in tow, talking loudly and forcefully, ...more
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Read in December, 2006
I'm not sure how to discuss a body of poems of this magnitude without falling far short of a worthy description. These poems are the remnants of one of the world's greatest minds. Complex, philosophical, metaphysical, spiritual, and deeply human, Coleridge's poems emerge from a place where spirit, body, and mind mix with unparalleled potency. Few writers in the history of English literature are able to approach Coleridge's level of poetic expression - a poetic mode of writing that addresses the ...more
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When Coleridge wasn't founding utopias, writing theory and playing politics, he managed to find a spot of time to write some poems. 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' touches something very base and elemental in the reader, hovering between pity and frustration. Coleridge should have put a bullet in Wordsworth though for stealing his poems and sucking the life out of them.
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And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
--excerpt from Kubla Khan
Enough said.
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
--excerpt from Kubla Khan
Enough said.
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It's like peanut butter: I bet most fans of chunky (myself included) would take coleridge over that creamy wimp wordsworth any day. At the end of the day it's still going to stick to the roof of your mouth, but somehow being able to really put your teeth into it makes all the difference.
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I love Coleridge. But you haven't heard "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" until you've heard Iron Maiden's song . . .
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YES I HAVE READ ALL OF THEM I EVEN CITED "CRISTOBEL" IN A PAPER ABOUT LESBIAN VAMPIRES IN SEVENTIES FRENCH CINEMA
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Worthwhile mostly for Kubla Khan and the Mariner
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Read in February, 2003
Penguin, not Coleridge, is the problem.
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"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."
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