COLERIDGE SAMUEL-TAYLOR

(P/B) WELL, THEY ARE GONE, AND HERE MUST I REMAIN
'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's browAdown enormous ravines slope amain -...' A selection of Coleridge's poems, including 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and 'Frost at Midnight' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and ...
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ΠΑΓΩΝΙΑ ΤΑ ΜΕΣΑΝΥΧΤΑ
"Όλες λοιπόν οι εποχές για σένα θα 'ναι γλυκές, είτε το καλοκαίρι ντύνει τη γη παντού με πρασινάδα, είτε στους κλώνους της μηλιάς, ανάμεσα σε τούφες χιόνι κάθεται η τσίχλα και κελαηδεί, ενώ η αχυρένια στέγη καπνίζει στάζοντας στον ήλιο είτε στα χάσματα της καταιγίδας θ' ακούς αργά να πέφτουν οι σταγόνες από το γείσωμα, είτε το μυστικό έργο της παγωνιάς θα τις κρεμάει σε σιωπηλούς κρυστάλλους που θα λάμπουν ήσυχα προς το ήσυχο φεγγάρι." Στο βιβλίδιο αυτό, σε εισαγωγικό σημείωμα, ο Διονύσης Καψάλης παρουσιάζει τα "ποιήματα συνομιλίας" του ...
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ΟΙ ΠΕΡΙΠΛΑΝΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΙΝ - ΟΙ ΣΚΕΨΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΒΟΛΟΥ (ΔΙΓΛΩΣΣΟ)
Μια σύνθεση σε πεζό λόγο -τουλάχιστον όχι έμμετρη- φαίνεται prima facie ότι χρειάζεται κάποια εξήγηση, κάποια αιτιολόγηση. Γράφτηκε το 1798, κοντά στο Nether Stowey, στην κομητεία Somerset, σ' ένα μέρος (sanctum et amabile nomen! πλούσιο σε φιλίες και αναμνήσεις) όπου ο συγγραφέας είχε εγκατασταθεί για να γειτονεύει μ' έναν αγαπημένο και πολύτιμο φίλο του, τον αξιότιμο T. Poole, και να απολαμβάνει τη συντροφιά του. Το έργο είχε σκεφτεί να το γράψει με τη συνεργασία κάποιου άλλου [του Wordsworth], που το όνομά του, τόσο πολυσέβαστο στις περ...
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Η ΜΠΑΛΑΝΤΑ ΤΟΥ ΓΕΡΟΥ ΝΑΥΤΙΚΟΥ
Πνευματικός ηγέτης του Αγγλικού Ρομαντισμού, ο S. T. Coleridge υπήρξε μια πληθωρική και αντιφατική προσωπικότητα: ποιητής, φιλόσοφος, δραματουργός, κριτικός, δημοσιογράφος, πολιτικός και κοινωνικός σχολιαστής, χαρισματούχος ομιλητής. Αντέδρασε στη μηχανιστική ψυχολογία του 18ου αιώνα, αναγνώρισε και καθιέρωσε τη φαντασία σαν κυρίαρχη δημιουργική δύναμη, εξερεύνησε τις ασυνείδητες δραστηριότητες του νου, τα όνειρα, τη χρήση των ναρκωτικών, τη λειτουργία του μύθου και των συμβόλων, ενώ παράλληλα έγραψε και μίλησε πολύ για την πολιτική, τη θρ...
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(P/B) THE COMPLETE POEMS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
"O pure of heart! thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be!" One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the opium-inspired 'Kubla Khan' to the sombre passion of 'Dejection: An Ode' and the medieval ballad 'Christabel'. His meditative ...
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(P/B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement in England. His work - still popular today - includes such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as well as the beautiful early poem Frost at Midnight: 'Or if the secret ministry of frost, Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.' Despite the great beauty of his work, he suffered from bouts of depression and today it is speculated he may well h...
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(P/B) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
'Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung' When an albatross leads a stricken ship out of treacherous ice, a hapless mariner shoots the bird, arousing the wrath of spirits who pursue the ship. Haunted by Death, the crew begin to perish one by one, until only the cursed mariner remains to confront his guilt. As penance for his actions he is condemned to wander the earth, telling his tale to those he meets as a warning. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's longest major poem and marks the beginning o...
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Η ΡΙΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΥ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΟΠΟΡΟΥ
Πρόκειται για ένα ναυτικό θρίλερ με φρικιαστικές σκηνές πού υποβάλλουν τρόμο και σασπένς (αδημονία). Ο θαλασσοπόρος-κεντρικός ήρωας διαπράττει μίαν ύβρι, σκοτώνοντας ένα αθώο θαλασσοπούλι, πράγμα που προκαλεί την κατάρα της συμπάσχουσας και συνωδίνουσας φύσης. Η προσπάθεια εξιλέωσης από το αμάρτημα επιβραδύνεται από βαρύτατα επιτίμια και δοκιμασίες, στις όποιες συμμετέχουν και αόρατες πνευματικές δυνάμεις, είτε σκοτεινοί δαίμονες και τελώνια του αέρος, είτε φωτεινοί άγγελοι, και από τις δύο μεριές του πνευματικού φάσματος. Το μήνυμα στο τέ...
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(P/B) LYRICAL BALLADS
When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This book offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge's and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Marinere. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) COLERIDGE
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was the master impresario of English Romanticism -- an enormously erudite and tireless critic, lecturer, and polemicist who almost single-handedly created the intellectual climate in which the Romantic movement was received and understood. He was also, in poems such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' 'Christabel,' and 'Kubla Khan.' the most uncanny, surreal, and startling of the great English poets. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) COLERIDGE: SELECTED POETRY
As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by turns dramatist, political journalist, lecturer, and religious thinker. This edition includes his two most famous poems, Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as well as such blank-verse 'conversation' poems as The Eolian Harp, This Lime Tree Bower My Prison, and Frost at Midnight. Not least of the attractions of Heather Jackson's selection is the earlier version of the Rime which she p...
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(P/B) COLERIDGE: SELECTED POETRY
'Full many a thought uncall'd and undetain'd, And many idle flitting phantasies, Traverse my indolent and passive brain, As wild and various as the random gales' The most revolutionary of the Romantic poets, Coleridge is best known for a small number of dazzling visionary poems, such as 'Kubla Khan' and 'The Ancient Mariner', which seem to stand out as isolated displays of poetic genius. But the variety of his poetry is far greater than is sometimes recognized. This collection shows him experimenting with a range of verse forms, from the s...
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(P/B) COLERIDGE: SELECTED POEMS
"...that hour I would wish'd to die. If thro'the shuddering midnight I had sent From the dark dungeon of the Tower time-rent That fearful voice, a famish'd Father's cry - Lest in some aftre moment aught more mean Might stamp me mortal! A triumphant shout Black Horror scream'd, and all her goblin rout Diminish'd shrunk from the withering scene!" -- from "To the Author of The Robbers" In this unusual selection, one of the great poet-critics of the twentieth century encounters and re-appraises the greatest poet-critic of the nineteenth. W...
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(P/B) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Dore's engravings for The Rime are considered by many to be his greatest work. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the hot equatorial seas swarming with monsters, the ice of Antarctica, more - are all rendered in a powerful manner. Full text and 38 plates. (From the publisher)...
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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER CARTOONS

COLERIDGE: POEMS (EVERYMAN)

(P/B) LYRICAL BALLADS