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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 821.7 EAN: 9780199537914 ISBN: 0199537917 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 752 Publication Date: January 15, 2009 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
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 Rating: - Good collection of Coleridge's worksS.T. Coleridge is an interesting poetic figure. An opium addict who imaged an imaginary country called 'Xanadu', based on an Asian legend about one of the descendants of Genghis Khan, Coleridge's visions are very scattered and lacking in unity. His poems, while some soar to great heights, are often confusing or pedestrian, and in this regard he is a lesser poet than Blake or Milton. Despite this and his constant dabblings in various religions and his unsystematic attempts to grasp ... Read More 
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