The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

Here lies the poetry of a man who chased visions, both chemical and divine, and transcribed what he saw. This two-volume collection gathers the full arc of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's extraordinary gift: from the shattering ballad of the Ancient Mariner, with its albatross hung around a guilty soul, to the fever-dream fragment of Kubla Khan, left forever unfinished after a interruption shattered the trance. You will find the conversation poems that redefined what poetry could do in the interplay of mind and nature, and you will find the unpublished fragments, the early drafts, the unfinished pieces that reveal the workshop behind the masterpiece. This is essential Romantic poetry in its full range: luminous, opium-dark, philosophically restless, and hauntingly beautiful. Coleridge wrote himself into the fabric of English poetry, and these volumes contain every thread.