Christabel (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- First Published: 1816
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Snakes, Supernatural, Ghosts or apparitions, Good and evil, Castles, Birds, Romanticism, Middle Ages, Monsters, Vampires
The Poem
Christabel is a long narrative poem, most of which is written in tetrameter couplets. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge himself pointed out in the original preface to the work, although the meter is standard, the number of syllables is somewhat irregular, varying from seven to twelve. The simple title emphasizes the fact that the story told by the poet is indeed Christabel’s story, the story of her struggle against possession by a demonic force.
From the scenic description in part 2 of Christabel, critics have deduced that the geographical setting...
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