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Der alte SeemannMit Illustrationen von Gustave Doré. E-book. Formato EPUB Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Books On Demand, 2021 -
"Das seine Rippen, so die Sonn Durchscheint so feuerrot; Und ist nur jenes Weib an Bord? Ist das ein Tod? Sind zweie dort? Ist ihr Gemahl der Tod? Rot ist ihr Mund; frei her sie schaut; Ihr Haupthaar golden wallt; Weiß ist, wie Aussatz, ihre Haut; Sie ist der Alp, die Totenbraut, Macht Menschenblut so kalt!" Das bekannte Schauergedicht von Samuel Taylor Coleridge um einen Seemann, der durch eine unbedachte Tat eine Katastrophe über sein Schiff heraufbeschwört.
Biographia Literaria. E-book. Formato EPUB Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Books On Demand, 2019 -
It has been my lot to have had my name introduced both in conversation, and in print, more frequently than I find it easy to explain, whether I consider the fewness, unimportance, and limited circulation of my writings, or the retirement and distance, in which I have lived, both from the literary and political world. Most often it has been connected with some charge which I could not acknowledge, or some principle which I had never entertained. Nevertheless, had I had no other motive or incitement, the reader would not have been troubled with this exculpation. What my additional purposes were, will be seen in the following pages. It will be found, that the least of what I have written concerns myself personally. I have used the narration chiefly for the purpose of giving a continuity to the work, in part for the sake of the miscellaneous reflections suggested to me by particular events, but still more as introductory to a statement of my principles in Politics, Religion, and Philosophy, and an application of the rules, deduced from philosophical principles, to poetry and criticism. But of the objects, which I proposed to myself, it was not the least important to effect, as far as possible, a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction; and at the same time to define with the utmost impartiality the real poetic character of the poet, by whose writings this controversy was first kindled, and has been since fuelled and fanned.
Lyrical Ballads. E-book. Formato EPUB Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Books On Demand, 2018 -
It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind. The evidence of this fact is to be sought, not in the writings of Critics, but in those of Poets themselves.The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure. Readers accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers, if they persist in reading this book to its conclusion, will perhaps frequently have to struggle with feelings of strangeness and aukwardness: they will look round for poetry, and will be induced to enquire by what species of courtesy these attempts can be permitted to assume that title. It is desirable that such readers, for their own sakes, should not suffer the solitary word Poetry, a word of very disputed meaning, to stand in the way of their gratification; but that, while they are perusing this book, they should ask themselves if it contains a natural delineation of human passions, human characters, and human incidents; and if the answer be favourable to the author's wishes, that they should consent to be pleased in spite of that most dreadful enemy to our pleasures, our own pre-established codes of decision.