John Livingston Lowes's classic work shows how various images from Coleridge's extensive reading, particularly in travel literature, coalesced to form the imagistic texture of his two most famous poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."Originally published in 1927.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

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Lowes, John Livingston

Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology

Princeton Legacy Library, 435, Course Book, Princeton, NJ, 2014

Princeton legacy library, Princeton, New Jersey, 2014

United States, United States of America

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Front Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Dedication 6
Epigraph 8
Foreword: John Livingston Lowes and Coleridge's Poems 10
Preface to Revised Edition 20
Preface 22
Table of Contents 30
A Note of the Notes 33
Book One 34
I Chaos 34
II The Falcons Eye 61
III The Deep Well 66
IV The Shaping Spirit 90
V The Magical Synthesis 99
VI Joiners Work: An Interlude 117
Book Two 134
VII The Loom 134
VIII The Pattern 146
IX The Fields of Ice 155
X The Courts of the Sun 170
XI The Journeying Moon 187
XII "Dear Gutter of Stowey" 209
Book Three 232
XIII The Bird and the Daemon 232
XIV How an Old Navigator Met Strange Company in Limbo 251
XV Wefts and Spectres 269
XVI The Known and Familiar Landscape 301
XVII A Sea-Change 313
Book Four 347
XVIII The Hooked Atoms 347
XIX The Sleeping Images 359
XX The Vision in a Dream 403
XXI "Not Poppy nor Mandragora" 412
XXII Imagination Creatrix 424
A List of Abbreviations 433
Notes 442
Addenda and Corrigenda 590
Index 610
About the Author 650

John Livingston Lowes's classic work shows how various images from Coleridge's extensive reading, particularly in travel literature, coalesced to form the imagistic texture of his two most famous poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."
Originally published in 1986.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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