Select Poems

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Excerpt from Select Poems: Coleridge and Tennyson, Prescribed for University and Normal School Entrance ExaminationsWithin a. Month of its publication Southey, speaking anonymously in the Critical Review, says of The Ancient Mariner: Many of the stanzas are laboriously beautiful, but in connection they are absurd and unintelligible We do not sufficiently understand the story to analyse it. It is a Dutch attempt at German sublimity. Genius has here been employed in producing a poem of little merit. And a few months later, the Monthly Review styles it the strangest story of a cock and bull that we ever saw on paper it seems a. Rhapsody of unintelligible wildness and incoherence there are however in it poetical touches of an exquisite kind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.