The Complete Poems

O of a pure heart! You dont need to ask me what the source of this powerful melody in your spirit might be.Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1844) a key figure in English Romanticism produced works of astounding variety and creative brilliance. Some of Coleridges most well-known poems including the opium-inspired Kubla Khan and the nightmare vision of Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well as the sombre passion of Dejection: An Ode and the medieval ballad Christabel were inspired during the time of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth. His latter works such as Youth and Age and Constancy to an Ideal Object are melancholy thoughts on mortality and lost love. His contemplative conversation poems such as Snow at Midnight and This Lime-Tree Bower Mister Prison dwell on remembering and solitude.