Books by Samuel Coleridge

While traveling to a wedding, a young man is pulled into the eventful narrative of the Ancient Mariner who is compelled to share his story. It's a miraculous tale about guilt, humanity and one's capacity to change. The Ancient Mariner notices a young man traveling to a nearby wedding. He abruptly interrupts his journey and starts sharing a story about his time at sea. He details its humble beginnings and the tumultuous events that followed. As the young man listens, he's taken aback by the story and the man's fight for survival. The Ancient Mariner faced hunger, thirst and eventually death before making a realization that would change the course of his life forever. Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's most famous works. Initially published in 1798, it's had a lasting impact on literature and pop culture, including music and film. It's a brilliant tale of morality that examines a character's actions and the inevitable consequences. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rime of the Ancient Mariner is both modern and readable.

Sangen om den gamle sømand (The Rime of The Ancient Mariner), som dette lille bind poesi har fået navn efter, er et af den romantiske litteraturs flotteste og mest indflydelsesrige digte. Det er skrevet af Samuel Taylor Coleridge omkring år 1800, og er ikke alene et eksistentielt digt om forholdet mellem verden og ensomheden og evigheden. Det er også en af de tidligste, såkaldt gotiske tekster, hvor uhyggen, der ryster sjælen, er et af virkemidlerne. Ib Johansen har nyoversat digtet og indledt det med et kyndigt forord til serien Bureauets Lommebibliotek hvor det udkommer sammen med andre digte af Coleridge og et udvalg af hans digterkollega og samarbejdspartner William Wordsworth. Det er der en god grund til. I endnu højere grad end Coleridge er Wordsworth en digter, der på samme tidspunkt indfanger de romantiske strømninger, som fik så stor betydning for den udvikling, der førte til vore dages individualitet og følelse i litteraturen. I udvalget af Wordsworth indgår hans forord til den digtsamling, de to udgav sammen, Lyrical Ballads, som blev startskuddet til den engelske romantik, og hvori han fortæller om det litterære ærinde, de er ude i, nemlig at gøre litteraturen mere tilgængelig for alle og enhver, ved at beskrive "hændelser og situationer fra det almindelige liv og at berette om dem eller beskrive dem, hele vejen igennem, så vidt det var muligt, ved at vælge at benytte sig af et sprog, som virkelig bliver talt af mennesker."

Published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world. Coleridge's contribution includes the nightmarish vision of 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere', one of the works for which he became best known, as well as the fantastical conversational poem 'The Foster-Mother's Tale' and the melancholic 'The Nightingale'. Wordsworth's 'We are Seven' depicts a child's na ve optimism in the face of the cruel mortality, while 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' and 'Simon Lee' celebrate the simplicity and strength he perceived in country people, and 'Tintern Abbey' explores the healing powers of nature.Published as part of the Penguin Poetry First Editions series in which the greatest collections of poetry in English will be published in their original form. All texts have been completely reset and some minor changes made to punctuation.

Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'), but he used and transformed a variety of verse forms, from the sonnet to the conversation poem, on subjects as diverse as nature, love, and politics. This selection calls attention to the range of Coleridge's work, its strong autobiographical content,and its artistic development throughout his career. The old chronological form has been abandoned and the poems are organised according to genre, with each section displaying its own individual development in craft and theme.

One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the opium-inspired 'Kubla Khan' to the sombre passion of 'Dejection: An Ode' and the medieval ballad 'Christabel'. His meditative 'conversation' poems, such as 'Frost at Midnight' and 'This Lime-Tree Bower Mr Prison', reflect on remembrance and solitude, while late works, such as 'Youth and Age' and 'Constancy to an Ideal Object', are haunting meditations on mortality and lost love.