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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IIL COLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH.--PUBLICATION OP THB "LYRICAL BALLADS." -- THB "ANCIENT MARINER."--THE FIRST PART OP "CHRI8TABEL."--DECLINE OP COLERIDGES POETIC IMPULSE.--PINAL REVIEW OP HIS POETRY. 1797-1799.] The years 1797 and 1798 are generally and justly regarded as the blossoming - time of Coleridges poetic genius. It would be scarcely an exaggeration to say that they were even more than this, and that within the brief period covered by them is included not only the development of the poets powers to their full maturity but the untimely beginnings of their decline. For to pass from the poems written by Coleridge within these two years to those of later origin is like passing from among the green wealth of summer foliage into the well-nigh naked woods of later autumn. During 1797 and 1798 the Ancient Mariner, the first part of Christabel, the fine ode to France, the Fears in Solitude, the beautiful lines entitled Frost at Midnight, the Nightingale, the Circassian Love-Chant, the piece known as Love, from the poem of the Dark Ladie, and that strange fragment Kubla Khan, were all of them written and nearly all of them published; while between the last composed of these and that swan-song of his dying Muse, the Dejection, of 1802, there is but one piece to be added to the list of his greater works. This, therefore, the second part of Christabel (1800), may almost be described by the picturesque image in the first part of the same poem as "The one red leaf, the last of its clan, Hanging so light and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky." The first to fail him of his sources of inspiration was his revolutionary enthusiasm; and the ode to France-- the Recantation, as it was styled on its first appearance...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154211665 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154211665 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 108 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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