Selected Poetry and Prose
In her introduction Kathleen Raine writes: "There is no major poet who has not also been a man of the highest intelligence, and in consequence, of wide knowledge beyond the frontiers of literature." This Penguin Poetry Library edition, Coleridge: Selected Poetry and Prose, offers 80 pages of...
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In her introduction Kathleen Raine writes: "There is no major poet who has not also been a man of the highest intelligence, and in consequence, of wide knowledge beyond the frontiers of literature." This Penguin Poetry Library edition, Coleridge: Selected Poetry and Prose, offers 80 pages of poetry (nearly fifty poems) and 200 pages of prose (letters, notes, lectures, and other writings).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140585018 (014058501X)
Publish date: September 3rd 1985
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 311
Edition language: English
I think Keats spoiled me for lesser romantic poets. Shakespeare and Donne often leaven their romantic flights of fancy with twists and twitting of conventions. Keats to me seemed to embrace them but with such freshness of expression and sheer beauty I forgave him. Almost all of the poems by Coleridg...