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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated Edition)
Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography & Letters
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-0243-0
Table of Contents
The Spirit of the Age: Mr. Coleridge by William Hazlitt
A Day With Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Byron
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James Gillman
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment
LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS (1798)
LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS (1800)
The Complete Poems in Chronological Order
ZAPOLYA: A CHRISTMAS TALE IN TWO PARTS
Literary Essays, Lectures and Memoirs:
SHAKSPEARE, WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER ON POETRY, THE DRAMA AND THE STAGE
CONFESSIONS OF AN INQUIRING SPIRIT AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS FROM “THE FRIEND”
HINTS TOWARDS THE FORMATION OF A MORE COMPREHENSIVE THEORY OF LIFE
SPECIMENS OF THE TABLE TALK OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
LITERARY REMAINS OF S.T. COLERIDGE
LETTERS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Introduction:
The Spirit of the Age: Mr. Coleridge by William Hazlitt
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements. The accumulation of knowledge has been so great, that we are lost in wonder at the height it has reached, instead of attempting to climb or add to it; while the variety of objects distracts and dazzles the looker-on. What niche remains unoccupied? What path untried? What is the use of doing anything, unless we could do better than all those who have gone before us? What hope is there of this? We are like those who have been to see some noble monument of art, who are content to admire without thinking of rivalling it; or like guests after a feast, who praise the hospitality of the donor "and thank the bounteous Pan"—perhaps carrying away some trifling fragments; or like the spectators of a mighty battle, who still hear its sound afar off, and the clashing of armour and the neighing of the war-horse and the shout of victory is in their ears, like the rushing of innumerable waters!
Mr. Coleridge has "a mind reflecting ages past:" his voice is like the echo of the congregated roar of the "dark rearward and abyss" of thought. He who has seen a mouldering tower by the side of a chrystal lake, hid by the