Of all his contemporaries, Samuel Taylor Coleridge had the most comprehensive and adventurous mind; in his poetry he attempts to join it to a deep capacity for feeling in a single act of knowing. In this complete edition by the poet’s grandson, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, the poems are arranged chronologically and include Coleridge’s own notes.

          Behind his two best-known poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, lies a body of beautiful and stimulating work which is less familiar. The poetry of the leading intellect of the English Romantic movement is always worth exploring, and his inventiveness, wit and imagery have secured his place at the forefront of English poets.