The Portable Coleridge (Portable Library)

The Portable Coleridge (Portable Library)

Chronically impoverished, tormented by self-doubt and a crippling addiction to opium, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) still managed to become one of the most versatile and influential forces of English romanticism.<p><b>The Portable Coleridge</b> faithfully represents all facets of this complex, haunted genius, including his poems, "<b>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</b>," "<b>Christabel</b>," "<b>Kubla Khan</b>," and "<b>Dejection</b>"; letters to friends and colleagues such as Robert Southey and William Godwin; selections from Notebooks and Table Talk; political and philisophical writings; literary criticism; and extensive excerpts from <b>Biographia Literaria</b>, in which Coleridge interweaves aesthetics, metaphysics, and disarmingly candid autobiography. Edited and with an introduction by the critic I.A. Richards, this voulme vastly expands our understanding of a writer of visionary insight and protean range.</p>