CHRISTABEL RELEASED is Ralph Hoyte's completion of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous Gothic ballad, 'Christabel'. The Bristol/UK-based poet and writer has taken Coleridge's original fragments and woven them into a coherent narrative poem which rescues the eponymous heroine, Christabel, from her over 200 years of enforced limbo. Christabel Released is just under 1/3 original Coleridge and just over 2/3 Ralph Hoyte. Christabel's themes are
demonic possession and seduction and the resulting destruction of The Old Order. The cast - apart from the lovely lady, Christabel - includes her sire, Sir Leoline of Langdale Hall, his bête noire Geraldine (‘sword-bearer’, from the Germanic), who is a shape-shifting snake demoness; Bracy, Sir Leoline’s bard; and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who may or may not be the snake-lady, Geraldine's father.
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Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Seller Inventory # rev4679338262
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