Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan and Christabel

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Tuley Francis Huntington (Editor)

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Genres: Poetry, Classics, 19th Century, Literature, British Literature

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1896

About the author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.

Reviews

[Jonfaith · Rating 4 out of 5]

He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn

This last week certainly left me sadder and wiser, eager to peer out Deleuze's window but resigned to the work and joy which keep me planted. Coleridge served as an exemplary anchor as I was tossed by the Fates. There is always concern, often some comfort. Too often, to be ethical, one is an asshole. I have often felt like the Rime's wedding-guest, you can't just outpace the implications. The big scheme of things holds two agents: fundamentalists and assholes. We remain in the latter camp.

Here's a happy Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx37f...

[маја · Rating 3 out of 5]

ancient mariner and christabel... fine. kubla khan? no thoughts. literally zero of them

[kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

ancient mariner: i feel like i've always known about this and read it way before i got back to this in class? solid 4/5 we'll do it

kubla khan: gotta get back to you on this one

christabel: the star of the show. i'm here for the weird supernatural lesbian implications, the strange religious concepts, all that. slay geraldine

[Ian Lepine · Rating 5 out of 5]

The musicality of Christabel is quite remarkably. The poem is written in iambic tetrameters with a fixed rhyme scheme, but it doesn't sound sing-songy. Somehow Coleridge is able to give the poem its correct atmosphere without having rhyme ruin it in a way that reminds me of 18th-century translations of Epic poems.

Speaking specifically of Christabel, whoever, I was rather taken aback by the ending. Not quite sure what that was even now.

[Mirta]

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[Angel Blue · Rating 5 out of 5]

lovely poems

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - It can be a bit heavy handed, but they are classics! Happy Reading!

[Laurel Hicks · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just wish Coleridge had gotten his life together so he could have written more.

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

He doesn't always get it right, but when he does, there's no-one better.