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Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
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EDITED BY FREDERICK H. SYKES, PH.D.
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLERIDGE'S ANCIENT MARINER AND SELECT POEMS 1908
PREFATORY NOTE
The text of the poems in this volume is that of J. Dykes Campbell in the
Globe edition of Coleridge's poems. For the introduction I have depended
also largely upon his Memoir of Coleridge, and upon the two volumes of
the "Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge," edited by the poet's grandson,
Mr. E.H. Coleridge. In the Notes, as will be seen, I am indebted
particularly to the general editor of this series, Dr. F.H. Sykes, to
Dr. Lane Cooper of Cornell University, and again to Mr. Coleridge,
through whose kindness I have been able to get a reproduction of the
Marshmills crayon, undoubtedly the most satisfactory portrait of the
poet in existence, for the frontispiece. H.M.B.
CONTENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION: I. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
II. COLERIDGE'S POEMS TEXT: THE ANCIENT MARINER
CHRISTABEL
KUBLA KHAN
LOVE
FRANCE: AN ODE
DEJECTION: AN ODE
YOUTH AND AGE
WORK WITHOUT HOPE
EPITAPH NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
EDITIONS: Globe Edition. Edited by J. Dykes Campbell. 1 vol. Muses' Library.
Edited by Richard Garnett. LIFE AND CRITICISM: Stephen, Leslie, Article "Coleridge" in "The Dictionary of National
Biography." H.D. Traill, "Coleridge" ("English Men of Letters Series"). Caine, T.H., "Coleridge" ("Great Writers Series"). Coleridge, S.T., "Biographia Literaria" ("Everyman's Library"). De Quincey, T., "Lake Poets." Hazlitt, W., "First Acquaintance with Poets." Cottle, J., "Reminiscences of Coleridge and Southey." Pater, W., "Appreciations." Shairp, J.C., "Studies in Poetry and Philosophy." Sarrazin, Gabriel, "La Renaissance de la Poésie Anglaise, 1798 1889." Brandl, Alois, "S.T. Coleridge and the English Romantic School." BIBLIOGRAPHY: Haney, J.L., "A Bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge."
INTRODUCTION
I. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
I. THE BEGINNINGS
Coleridge lived in what may safely be called the most momentous period
of modern history. In the year following his birth Warren Hastings was
appointed first governor general of India, where he maintained English
empire during years of war with rival nations, and where he committed
those acts of cruelty and tyranny which called forth the greatest
eloquence of the greatest of English orators, in the famous impeachment
trial at Westminster, when Coleridge was a sixteen year old schoolboy in
London. A few years before his birth the liberal philosophy of France
had found a popular voice in the writings of Rousseau, which became the
gospel of revolution throughout Europe in Coleridge's youth and early
manhood. "The New Héloise" in the field of sentiment and of the relation
of the sexes, "The Social Contract" In political theory, and "Émile" in
matters of education, were books whose influence upon Coleridge's
generation it would be hard to estimate. When Coleridge was four years
old the English colonies in America declared their independence and
founded a new nation upon the natural rights of man, a nation that has
grown to be the mightiest and most beneficent on the globe. Coleridge
was seventeen when the French Revolution broke out; he was forty three
when Napoleon was sent to St. Helena. He saw the whole career of the
greatest political upheaval and of the greatest military genius of the
modern world. Fox, Pitt, and Burke, the greatest Liberal orator, the
greatest Parliamentary leader, and the greatest philosophic statesman
that England has produced were at the height of their glory when
Coleridge went up to Cambridge in 1791. In literature naturally, since literature is but an interpretation of
life the age was not less remarkable. Dr. Johnson was still alive when
Coleridge came up to school at Christ's Hospital, Goldsmith had died
eight years before. But a new spirit was abroad in the younger
generation. Macpherson's "Fingal," alleged to be a translation from the
ancient Gaelic poet Ossian, had appeared in 1760; Thomas Percy's
"Reliques of Ancient English Poetry," a collection of folk ballads and
rude verse romances such as the common people cherished but critics had
long refused to consider as poetry, was published in 1765... Continue reading book >>
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