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The poem is vastly different in style from other poems written by Coleridge. The first stanza of the poem describes Kublai Khan's pleasure dome built alongside a sacred river fed by a powerful fountain. The second stanza depicts the sacred river as a darker, supernatural and more violent force of nature.
Apologia pro Vita sua. ('The poet in his lone,' &c.) "The poet in his lone yet genial hour" 1800 1822 The Keepsake "The tedded hay, the first fruits of the soil," 1800? 1802, September 17 A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland. "On stern Blencartha's perilous height" 1800 1833 The Mad Monk "I heard a voice from Etna's side;" 1800
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ ˈ k oʊ l ə r ɪ dʒ / KOH-lə-rij; [1]) (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.
The river disappears several times into the limestone Arcadian mountains and reemerges after flowing some distance underground. [26] This is the origin of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's reference to the river, by the name Alph, in his poem Kubla Khan , although he transferred the location of the river to Kublai Khan's Mongolia, "where Alph ...
The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes.Its working title was 'Autobiographia Literaria'. The formative influences on the work were William Wordsworth's theory of poetry, the Kantian view of imagination as a shaping power (for which Coleridge later coined the neologism "esemplastic"), various post-Kantian writers ...
Poems on Various Subjects (1796) was the first collection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, including also a few sonnets by Charles Lamb.A second edition in 1797 added many more poems by Lamb and by Charles Lloyd, and a third edition appeared in 1803 with Coleridge's works only.
The Critical Review saw favor with "To the River Otter" and Reflections in their review of the 1797 collection of Coleridge's poem. [21] The July review claims that the poem "evince a feeling heart. The comparison between the weeping eyes of a humane friend and the unmoved face of another equally benevolent, and the contrast between the latter ...
The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words.