Ancient Mariner, Beowulf & Shakespeare's Sonnets Poetry Folio Society 1st ed. 3v

Ancient Mariner, Beowulf & Shakespeare's Sonnets Poetry Folio Society 1st ed. 3v

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Ancient Mariner, Beowulf & Shakespeare's Sonnets Poetry Folio Society 1st ed. 3v
Folio Society
Poetry & Plays

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Beowulf, Shakespeare's Sonnets

Various

£39.99
Printing year Not Known
First edition Not Known
Volumes 3
Weight 2 Kg
Condition Good
Condition notes In good overall condition. Light fading to slipcases and spines.

Edition details

A 3-volume Folio Society Bundle including: - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: T he longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written circa 1797. It relates the events experienced by a mariner who has returned from a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience, fear, and fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, the use of narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, or the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood each different part of the poem. - Beowulf : Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. - Shakespeare's Sonnets.

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