1816 Christabel, Kubla Khan, The Pains of Sleep

Description

Early Edition, Leather Binding

The second edition, published in the same year as the first.

Half-title is present.

Three of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems published in one volume; 'Christabel', 'Kubla Khan', and 'The Pains of Sleep'.

All three of these poems were penned years before being first published in this volume.

'Christabel' concerns the eponymous character and her meeting with a strange woman named Geraldine, who claims to have been abducted by a band of men.

'Kubla Khan' is vastly different in style of Coleridge's other poems, the author claiming to have written the work after and opium-induced sleep after reading a work describing Shangdu. Written in 1797, Coleridge only privately shared this work with his friends, before Lord Byron encouraged him to publish it in 1816.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher. He founded the Romantic movement along with his friend William Wordsworth. He is best known for his poems 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Kahn' as well as his influential critical works.