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COLERIDGE, S.T.: Great Poets (The) (Unabridged Selections)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend William Wordsworth, revolutionised English poetry; in 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using ‘the language of men’. They pointed the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets.
Coleridge’s addiction to opium affected his poetic output, and yet the handful of poems he did produce were innovative. These ranged from the quietly conversational to the wildly imagined, and include two of the greatest in English literature: Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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Kubla Khan
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Kubla Khan
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The sun now rose upon the right…
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There passed a weary time…
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'I fear thee, ancient mariner…'
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O, sleep! It is a gentle thing…
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'But tell me, tell me, speak again…'
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This hermit good lives in that wood…
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Love
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Love
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Frost at Midnight
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Frost at Midnight
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This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
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This Lime - Tree Bower My Prison
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Christabel
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Christabel
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Then Christabel stretched forth her hand…
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And thus the lofty lady spake…
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Each matin bell, the baron sayeth…
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O then the baron forgot his age…
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The baron, the while, half listening…
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Total Playing Time:
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