Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, And, the Vision of Sir Launfal: Edited for School Use
This literary revolution, which marks the transit from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, call - not very exactly - the Romantic movement; of this movement Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one o the most interesting figures. His significance is 0 two sorts, as philosopher and as poet. As philosopher he brought into England the new system of though developed in Germany by Kant and his followers, a life-long work, which took his best in energy and time. As poet, his work is small in bulk, and was ac complished almost entirely in a single wonderful yeal But, small as it is in bulk, it occupies a place of'thl first importance in the history of English literature and, what is more to our purpose, has at its best a peculia. Enthralling beauty which we shall look in Vain to fill( elsewhere.
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