Author:Samuel Coleridge,Richard Holmes,Richard Holmes
Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'), but he used and transformed a variety of verse forms, from the sonnet to the conversation poem, on subjects as diverse as nature, love, and politics. This selection calls attention to the range of Coleridge's work, its strong autobiographical content,and its artistic development throughout his career. The old chronological form has been abandoned and the poems are organised according to genre, with each section displaying its own individual development in craft and theme.
Peter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Solzhenitsyn: Andre Brink must be considered with that class of writer
—— GuardianAn astonishing performance... His most profound and most beautiful novel-It could well be Brink's most artistically complex and complete achievement
—— Irish TimesHarsh, visionary and unsettling
—— Time OutCompelling to read and hauntingly vivid... Suffering, humiliation, love, revenge companionship: to each Brink gives a multi-faceted, diamantine brilliance... Cries out to be read
—— ScotsmanBrink is one of the crucial writers of our time... A truly horrifying tale, but compassionately and compellingly told
—— Glasgow HeraldColin Thubron seems to be a writer undaunted by immensity, either of place or plot... To the Last City is haunting and passionate and, above all, magnificently fearless
—— Observer