By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
With this assortment, popular Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new mild at the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into 8 different types of subject matter and style, dispelling the parable of Coleridge as "the metaphysical dreamer" and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiographer of great energy and range. At the center of Selected Poetry are the dialog Poems, a unified and fantastically crafted autobiographical series written over a interval of twelve years. a sequence of little-known love poems to Asra, which mix understated ardour and determined directness, replicate the depths of Coleridge's emotions for Sara Hutchinson, his unimaginable lifelong love.
The quantity additionally comprises the powerful Hill strolling Poems, and the key ache of the Confessional Poems, in addition to formerly undervalued later poetry born of Coleridge's stressed previous age and his ironic mirrored image on his existence.
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