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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780140423532
ISBN: 0140423532
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 656
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780140423532
ISBN: 0140423532
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 656
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Customer Reviews of The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Love his poems!
Review: I just received this book earlier today and all I can say is wow! A complete and total genius! This is a must have for your library of poetry. As soon as you get it I would recommend you to fully reading the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
This just blew me away;
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
Genius with words and master of painting pictures with them to really make you think and envision what he is trying to show you! The list goes and the poems are just amazing! You need to buy this book!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Penguin Complete Poems of Coleridge
Review: I bought this collection of Coleridge's poems sight unseen on the assumption--which proved correct--that it would have scholarly apparatus similar to that of the other more recent Penguin editions of major poets. There is nothing else that comes close to it except for the hugely expensive Princeton edition. Everything most readers need to know about these poems is in the scrupulous notes of the editor, William Keach. I'd throw my old Modern Library selection into the garage sale heap, except that it has "Biographia Literaria" complete, though with no notes or other aids.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Book
Review: So far a good book. I haven't been able to put it down.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: All things both great and small
Review: Coleridge's greatness as a poet is in part his capacity to create lines which ring in and return to the mind over and over again. He is one of those poets whose poetry loves to be remembered.
"It is an Ancient Mariner and he stoppeth one of three /By thy long grey beard and glittering eye/ Wherefore thou stoppest thou me?"
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure Dome decree/Where Alph the Sacred River ran/ through caverns measureless to Man/ Down to a sunless sea/
"He prayeth best who loveth both/ All things both great and Small /For the Great God who madeth us / He loveth and madeth us all. /
Coleridge wrote some of the greatest poems written in the English language . "The Ancient Mariner" "Kubla Khan" "Dejection:An Ode" "
With Wordsworth he in "The Lyrical Ballads 1798" initiated the Romantic Movement in English poetry, with Wordsworth concentrating on the everyday in simple language, and Coleridge the mysterious and supernal in fantastic language.
This complete collection of his poetry is as uneven and varied in interest as his own remarkable if unsteady mind was.
The complete collection gives the reader the chance to reread and repossess the great works often anthologized, and explore further less well - known poems which nonetheless have their own value.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Verses from a friend.
Review: This Penguin collection compares very well with my own Oxford Edition of 1935, and I particularly like the fact that the price is reasonable, so more people may decide to buy the book instead of just getting the two or three poems available in a typical anthology. Samuel Taylor Coleridge suffered a lot during his life: unrequited love, drug addiction, inferiority complex. Yet what a wonderful legacy for all of us fortunate enough to read his verses. My favorite poem is Christabel and I can't help picture the entire poem in my mind as if it were a gothic-horror film. The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner is his most famous work, but all of his other great and not-so great works are here, too: Dejection, an Ode; To Mathilda Betham from a Stranger; Kubla Khan; Ode to the Departing Year; The Nightingale; A Stranger Minstrel, etc. Coleridge represents the departure from the Neo-Classic and the introduction to the Romantic. He and his friend Wordsworth are pivotal in achieving that change. His religious poems may seem odd to a modern reader, but mysticism was nothing new back then, and the man was trying to make sense of his very difficult life, anchoring his hopes in his religion. Anyone who purchases, or borrows, this book, must know that hundreds of pages worth of poetry tell us a lot about the poet, since we are reading his life's work. Excellent book dedicated to the labor of a great author, and at a very convenient price. If you like the Romantics, or are interested in the period, this is a book for you.
Review Summary: Love his poems!
Review: I just received this book earlier today and all I can say is wow! A complete and total genius! This is a must have for your library of poetry. As soon as you get it I would recommend you to fully reading the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
This just blew me away;
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
Genius with words and master of painting pictures with them to really make you think and envision what he is trying to show you! The list goes and the poems are just amazing! You need to buy this book!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Penguin Complete Poems of Coleridge
Review: I bought this collection of Coleridge's poems sight unseen on the assumption--which proved correct--that it would have scholarly apparatus similar to that of the other more recent Penguin editions of major poets. There is nothing else that comes close to it except for the hugely expensive Princeton edition. Everything most readers need to know about these poems is in the scrupulous notes of the editor, William Keach. I'd throw my old Modern Library selection into the garage sale heap, except that it has "Biographia Literaria" complete, though with no notes or other aids.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Book
Review: So far a good book. I haven't been able to put it down.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: All things both great and small
Review: Coleridge's greatness as a poet is in part his capacity to create lines which ring in and return to the mind over and over again. He is one of those poets whose poetry loves to be remembered.
"It is an Ancient Mariner and he stoppeth one of three /By thy long grey beard and glittering eye/ Wherefore thou stoppest thou me?"
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure Dome decree/Where Alph the Sacred River ran/ through caverns measureless to Man/ Down to a sunless sea/
"He prayeth best who loveth both/ All things both great and Small /For the Great God who madeth us / He loveth and madeth us all. /
Coleridge wrote some of the greatest poems written in the English language . "The Ancient Mariner" "Kubla Khan" "Dejection:An Ode" "
With Wordsworth he in "The Lyrical Ballads 1798" initiated the Romantic Movement in English poetry, with Wordsworth concentrating on the everyday in simple language, and Coleridge the mysterious and supernal in fantastic language.
This complete collection of his poetry is as uneven and varied in interest as his own remarkable if unsteady mind was.
The complete collection gives the reader the chance to reread and repossess the great works often anthologized, and explore further less well - known poems which nonetheless have their own value.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Verses from a friend.
Review: This Penguin collection compares very well with my own Oxford Edition of 1935, and I particularly like the fact that the price is reasonable, so more people may decide to buy the book instead of just getting the two or three poems available in a typical anthology. Samuel Taylor Coleridge suffered a lot during his life: unrequited love, drug addiction, inferiority complex. Yet what a wonderful legacy for all of us fortunate enough to read his verses. My favorite poem is Christabel and I can't help picture the entire poem in my mind as if it were a gothic-horror film. The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner is his most famous work, but all of his other great and not-so great works are here, too: Dejection, an Ode; To Mathilda Betham from a Stranger; Kubla Khan; Ode to the Departing Year; The Nightingale; A Stranger Minstrel, etc. Coleridge represents the departure from the Neo-Classic and the introduction to the Romantic. He and his friend Wordsworth are pivotal in achieving that change. His religious poems may seem odd to a modern reader, but mysticism was nothing new back then, and the man was trying to make sense of his very difficult life, anchoring his hopes in his religion. Anyone who purchases, or borrows, this book, must know that hundreds of pages worth of poetry tell us a lot about the poet, since we are reading his life's work. Excellent book dedicated to the labor of a great author, and at a very convenient price. If you like the Romantics, or are interested in the period, this is a book for you.