Poems

This selection gathers the poems Coleridge wrote from the 1790s through his later years. Narrative pieces include the ballad of a mariner cursed for shooting an albatross, the unfinished gothic fragment Christabel, and the opium vision of Kubla Khan's pleasure-dome. Conversation poems such as Frost at Midnight and This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison turn from a cottage or garden to memory and blessing. Political odes and later, more fragmentary pieces sit beside them. The book is a gathering of ballad, fragment, and meditative blank verse, not a single story and not his criticism or notebooks.

Quarter bound in black leather, red-brown cloth boards. Green endleaves patterned in orange and black. Grey or brown slipcase.