Christabel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christabel is a long narrative ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , in two parts. The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. Coleridge prepared for the first two parts to be published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads , his collection of poems with William Wordsworth , but left it out on Wordsworth's advice. The exclusion of the poem, coupled with his inability to finish it, left Coleridge in doubt about his poetical power. It was published in a pamphlet in 1816, alongside Kubla Khan and The Pains of Sleep . Overview Author Samuel Taylor Coleridge Year Published 1816 Type Poem Genre Drama, Fantasy Perspective and Narrator The poem has a third-person omniscient speaker with brief sections written in first person. Tense The poem is in the past tense. About the Title Christabel is the name of one of the two main characters. She i