Excerpt from Selections From the Poems of Samuel Taylor Colerdige
The poems included in this selection and arranged, as far as possible, in chronological order, represent the best of Coleridge"s work. The difference of level in his poetry is much more noticeable than is the case with the other poets of the Romantic movement, and the supreme excellence in their unapproachable manner of The Ancient Mariner and his purely romantic fragments has cast into the shade much of the reflective verse in which he embodied his most characteristic thought. It has therefore been thought fit to make a fairly copious selection from those poems in blank verse which exhibit him in his closest relation to his friend Wordsworth, and, if they fall short of the dignity and sustaining power of Wordsworth"s poetry, are remarkable for their pervading sense of natural beauty and their singular autobiographical interest. Special acknowledgment must be made to the editions of Coleridge"s poems by the late Mr J. Dykes Campbell and by Mr E. H. Coleridge, which have been constantly consulted, and, among the abundant literature of the subject, to Mr Dykes Campbell"s invaluable Life of Coleridge. My wife has also given me much help and advice with regard both to the selection of poems and the notes.
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