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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 theGlobe edition of Coleridge's poems. For the introduction I have dependedalso largely upon his Memoir of Coleridge, and upon the two volumes ofthe "Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge," edited by the poet's grandson,Mr. E.H. Coleridge. In the Notes, as will be seen, I am indebtedparticularly to the general editor of this series, Dr. F.H. Sykes, toDr. Lane Cooper of Cornell University, and again to Mr. Coleridge,through whose kindness I have been able to get a reproduction of theMarshmills crayon, undoubtedly the most satisfactory portrait of thepoet 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 periodof modern history. In the year following his birth Warren Hastings wasappointed first governor-general of India, where he maintained Englishempire during years of war with rival nations, and where he committedthose acts of cruelty and tyranny which called forth the greatesteloquence of the greatest of English orators, in the famous impeachmenttrial at Westminster, when Coleridge was a sixteen-year-old schoolboy inLondon. A few years before his birth the liberal philosophy of Francehad found a popular voice in the writings of Rousseau, which became thegospel of revolution through

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