Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated Poets)

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author), Peter Porter (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.56

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  Paperback
  2001

  $22.50

  The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work, as well as providing a passionate and accessible introduction to some of the greatest poets in history.

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.41

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  Paperback
  2005

  $10.74

  Robert Burns (1759-96) was born into a farming family in Ayrshire, Scotland. The publication in 1786 of his first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect, made him famous overnight, and saw him feted by Edinburgh society. But Burns made no money from his writing and quickly fell on hard times, returning to farming in Dumfries and, when that failed, to work as an excise officer. He devoted his final years to poetry and the writing of Scottish songs.