{"product_id":"taylor-coleridge-s-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-9780099561538","title":"Taylor Coleridge S Rime Of The Ancient Mariner","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834), one of the most imaginative poets of the English Romantic Movement, was also its most influential thinker and philosopher. \u003ci\u003eThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u003c\/i\u003e was written early in his life, during a period of intense and impassioned creativity, and, like all his best work, has a visionary quality with strong religious and metaphysical overtones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMervyn Peake (19111968) was born in China but moved to England at the age of eleven and studied at Eltham College, Kent, and at the Royal Academy Schools. His striking originality as an artist brought him renown as an illustrator of books such as \u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hunting of the Snark\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/i\u003e. He also wrote poetry and plays, but is best remembered as a writer for his Gormenghast trilogy of novels, \u003ci\u003eTitus Groan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGormenghast\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTitus Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, an extravagant gothic fantasy that has become a modern classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstonishingly, the poem's spell doesn't seem to weaken over the years... The scenery remains thrillingly hellish, while laced with photographically realistic meteorological effects, and the narrative drive is irresistible * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eSome of his [Coleridge's] poems are indisputably great, and the greatest is probably 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThe greatest sea poem in the language -- Jonathan Raban\u003cbr\u003eThe Poem contains many delicate touches of passion, and indeed the passion is every where true to nature, a great number of the stanzas present beautiful images, and are expressed with unusual felicity of language; and the versification, though the metre is itself unfit for long poems, is harmonious and artfully varied, exhibiting the utmost powers of that metre, and every variety of which it is capable -- William Wordsworth","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732299723095,"sku":"9780099561538","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099561538.jpg?v=1719996320","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/taylor-coleridge-s-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-9780099561538","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}