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`Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems,' edited by Richard Holmes Penguin;.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20001220
Author:Eberhart, John Mark

Years ago I was discussing Samuel Taylor Coleridge with a friend. "Coleridge is the one-hit-wonder of Romantic poetry," my buddy said.

I agreed, although I said I thought Coleridge (1772-1834) was more of a three-hit wonder: As a young poet he had written one masterpiece, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," but also one great fragment, "Christabel," and one poem of dream-and-drug-inspired creative epiphany, "Kubla Khan."

Still, my friend's point was well-taken. All three poems I cited were conceived before Coleridge's 30th birthday, although he revised the "Mariner" for ...

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