Campbell, Thomas, Coleridge, Samuel T.

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With Lives. [Including the Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts]. Eight Engravings on Steel.

Two Volumes in one. Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis, 1859. 10 cm x 17 cm. Thomas Campbell: XXII, 114 pages / Samuel Taylor Coleridge: XXI, 386 pages. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Original illustrated hardcover / Masterbinding of the 19th century with gilt lettering and ornament. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and on American transcendentalism. Throughout his adult life Coleridge had crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it has been speculated that he had bipolar disorder, which had not been defined during his lifetime. He was physically unhealthy, which may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these conditions with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.

Thomas Campbell (27 July 1777 – 15 June 1844) was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing especially with human affairs. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London. In 1799, he wrote “The Pleasures of Hope”, a traditional 18th century didactic poem in heroic couplets. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs—″Ye Mariners of England”, “The Soldier’s Dream”, “Hohenlinden” and in 1801, “The Battle of Mad and Strange Turkish Princes”. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: English Literature – Rare · Erik Haugaard Collection · Poetry – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 44748AB

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