The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems of the Romantic Era

Samuel Taylor Coleridge,William Blake,William Wordsworth,George Gordon, Lord Byron,Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Keats

ISBN 10: 1580491715 / ISBN 13: 9781580491716

Published by Prestwick House, Inc., 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems of the Romantic Era
• Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580491715
• ISBN 13: 9781580491716
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes two dozen classic poems, a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader more fully appreciate the richness and unique vision of these Romantic innovators.

When, in 1798, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and other Romantic poems were published in Lyrical Ballads, the book did not immediately capture the public's imagination. Today, however, most modern critics consider the collection extremely important and influential. It ushered in what came to be known as the English Romantic Era in poetry and moved from the contrived and intellectual poetic language of the Enlightenment to a celebration of the simple, the pure, and the natural.

The poems in this anthology represent, not necessarily the most famous, but certainly the best poetry produced by the six great English Romantic poets--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. These twenty-four poems reveal the heights of ecstatic inspiration, the depths of grief and utter desolation, and the ideologies of these mystics, revolutionaries, and free thinkers.

Mini-biographies of the poets accompany their works and tell the stories of the fascinating, and often scandalous, lives of the modern world's first true literary celebrities.