Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Complete Illustrated Edition)
An Illustrated Journey Through Romantic Poetry, Imagination, and LifeBy Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron
Length57h 17m
About this audiobook
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Complete Illustrated Edition) brings poetry, biography, and visual interpretation into a compact encounter with one of British Romanticism's most consequential imaginations. Coleridge's lyrics move between visionary landscapes, philosophical inquietude, supernatural narrative, and intimate reflection, revealing the formal daring that helped redefine English poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. The illustrated format deepens this range, inviting readers to consider how image, atmosphere, and verbal music jointly shape such memorable Romantic scenes. The volume places Coleridge's writing in conversation with May Byron's accessible biographical and editorial mediation. As a poet, critic, lecturer, and collaborator in the wider Romantic circle, Coleridge stands at the intersection of literary experiment, political idealism, religious questioning, and early nineteenth-century print culture. Byron's framing helps situate the lyrics within the pressures of a life marked by intellectual ambition and personal difficulty, while preserving the poems' imaginative autonomy. Together, the materials illuminate Romanticism as both a historical movement and a sustained inquiry into perception, nature, consciousness, and the creative mind. Recommended for students, general readers, and admirers of Romantic literature, this edition offers a richly contextualized route into Coleridge's art. Its combination of poems, illustrations, and biographical perspective encourages close reading while fostering dialogue between literary text, visual response, and cultural history.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length57 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains of John Keats (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XXIV. CONCLUSION
2Biographia Literaria
27Anima Poetae
3CHAPTER I
28PREFACE
4CHAPTER II
29CHAPTER I
5CHAPTER III
30CHAPTER II
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6CHAPTER IV
31CHAPTER III
7CHAPTER V
32CHAPTER IV
8CHAPTER VI
33CHAPTER V
9CHAPTER VII
34CHAPTER VI
10CHAPTER VIII
35CHAPTER VII
11CHAPTER IX
36CHAPTER VIII
12CHAPTER X
37CHAPTER IX
13CHAPTER XI
38CHAPTER X
14CHAPTER XII
39Bibliographia Epistolaris
15CHAPTER XIII
40PART I. POETRY
16CHAPTER XIV
41CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS [1772 to 1791]
17CHAPTER XV
42CHAPTER II. CAMBRIDGE AND PANTISOCRACY
18CHAPTER XVI
43CHAPTER III. THE WATCHMAN (1795 to 1796)
19CHAPTER XVII
44CHAPTER IV. CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS OF COLERIDGE
20CHAPTER XVIII
45CHAPTER V. STOWEY
21CHAPTER XIX
46CHAPTER VI. THE LYRICAL BALLADS; GERMANY
22CHAPTER XX
47CHAPTER VII. THE RELIGION OF THE PINEWOODS
23CHAPTER XXI
48CHAPTER VIII. RETURN TO ENGLAND; “WALLENSTEIN”, AND THE “MORNING POST”
24CHAPTER XXII
49CHAPTER IX. KESWICK
25CHAPTER XXIII
50PART II THE PERMANENT: CHAPTER X. ILL HEALTH; SOUTHEY COMES TO KESWICK
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