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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biography and Literary Works
Samuel T. Coleridge was born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, as the youngest son of the vicar of Ottery St Mary.
Coleridge moved with him to Bristol to establish a community, but the plan failed.
Coleridge was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1824.
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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge - MSN Encarta
Coleridge was born in Ottery Saint Mary in the English county of Devonshire on October 21, 1772.
Coleridge left Cambridge without a degree and worked with his university friend the poet Robert Southey on a plan, soon abandoned, to found a utopian society in Pennsylvania.
By 1797 Coleridge had met the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, and had begun what was to be a lifelong friendship with them.
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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The son of a clergyman, Coleridge was a precocious, dreamy child.
Coleridge’s main contribution to the volume was the haunting, dreamlike ballad “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” This long poem, as well as “Kubla Khan” and “Christabel,” written during the same period, are Coleridge’s best-known works.
Coleridge’s lifelong friend Charles Lamb called him a “damaged archangel.” Indeed, 20th-century editorial scholarship has unearthed additional evidence of plagiarism; thus, Coleridge is still a controversial figure.
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 Coleridge, Hartley Criticism and Essays
Hartley Coleridge was born in Bristol, England, on September 19, 1796 to Samuel Taylor and Sara Coleridge, and was surrounded by the literary greats of the Romantic era from early in his childhood.
Coleridge had found the writing dry and distasteful anyway, and the collapse of the firm coupled with his father's declining health led the younger Coleridge back to the Lake District.
Coleridge also exhibited independence in his use of language and style, and critics have noted that his verse is marked by plays of fancy and humor that are not to be found in Wordsworth's poetry.
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 Poetry: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was born in a small village in southern England, but after the death of his father he was sent to school in London.
Coleridge's contribution was the long supernatural narrative "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and several shorter poems.
Coleridge by this time was addicted to opium, and his writing became chaotically uneven.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Samuel Coleridge
But Coleridge did not take himself too seriously; in addition to publishing under his initials, STC (or “Estisi”), he was known to publish works mocking his own style under the lighthearted pseudonyms Silas Tomkyn Comerbache and Nehemiah Higginbottom.
Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772 in Devonshire, England.
Coleridge proved to be a brilliant student from early on, and continued his excellence at Jesus College.
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 Mill on Coleridge
The name of Coleridge is one of the few English names of our time which are likely to be oftener pronounced, and to become symbolical of more important things, in proportion as the inward workings of the age manifest themselves more and more in outward facts.
With Coleridge, on the contrary, the very fact that any doctrine had been believed by thoughtful men, and received by whole nations or generations of mankind, was part of the problem to be solved; was one of the phenomena to be accounted for.
Coleridge would probably have made Bentham one of the exceptions to the enlarged and liberal appreciation which (to the credit of his mode of philosophizing) he extended to most thinkers of any eminence from whom he differed...
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 Samuel T. Coleridge
Although Coleridge's poetic achievement was small in quantity, his metaphysical anxiety, anticipating modern existentialism, has gained him reputation as an authentic visionary.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, as the youngest son of the vicar of Ottery St Mary.
Coleridge's daughter Sara (1802-1852) was also a writer and translator.
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 Welcome to Coleridge, Nebraska!
Coleridge, Nebraska, is a modern farming community of 541 people located in the southern heart of Cedar County.
Coleridge was the first depot located in the county in 1883 on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad and was where building materials were stockpiled for the eventual construction push to Hartington.
Coleridge is located in a rich farming community and serves the basic economic and agricultural needs of area farmers and ranchers as well as for its residents.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry James Coleridge
Coleridge, a Judge of the King's Bench, and brother of John Duke, Lord
Coleridge, with many of his tutors and friends, joined its ranks and was an ardent
Coleridge projected and carried on the well known Quarterly Series to which he himself largely contributed, both with his great work "The Public Life of Our Lord" and others, such as "The
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 A Biographical Sketch by blupete: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): "Wrecked in a Mist of Opium."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the youngest son of the Reverend John Coleridge, the vicar of Ottery St. Mary, a parish in the southern quarter of Devonshire.
Coleridge, now with a wife and child to support and another on the way, determined to go to work as a Unitarian minister; his first appointment was to be in Shrewsbury.
Coleridge charmed people with his talk; he was a "brilliant conversationalist." It was one of the reasons, in later years that he was such a hit on the lecture circuit.
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 Island of Freedom - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In 1794 Coleridge met the equally radical and idealistic poet Robert Southey, and together the two planned a utopian community, or pantisocracy, to be founded on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the United States.
Coleridge's marital difficulties added to other miseries, for he was by then addicted to laudanum (opium dissolved in alcohol), a commonly prescribed drug, and aware that his poetic talent was fading.
Coleridge was esteemed by some of his contemporaries and is generally recognized today as a lyrical poet and literary critic of the first rank.
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge threw himself enthusiastically into this radical upsurge, which was as impatient with the status quo in religion as it was in politics.
The eagerness of Channing and Emerson to meet with Coleridge, and the acknowledgment on the part of all the leaders in the New England Transcendentalist movement of their indebtedness to him, illustrates the place he had in later life as the leading interpreter of the transition from eighteenth-century rationalism to nineteenth-century romanticism.
Coleridge and Blanco White have both been described as instigators of the 'Broad Church' movement in the Church of England, which was a liberal force in the middle of the century, with another ex-Unitarian, Frederick Denison Maurice, as one of its leading figures.
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 Coleridge Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
Coleridge's "literary life and opinions [on] poetry and poetical criticism," dictated to a friend in the summer of 1815 and published in 1817, includes a critique of Wordsworth's poetic ideas, specifically on diction.
Coleridge takes issue with Wordsworth's famous idea that the language of poetry and the language of common speech should be the same...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language; one of England's greatest critics and theorists of literature and imagination; as well as autobiographer, nature-writer, philosopher, theologian, psychologist, and talker....
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 SparkNotes: Coleridge’s Poetry: Themes, Motifs & Symbols
Colloquial, spontaneous, and friendly, Coleridge’s conversation poetry is also highly personal, frequently incorporating events and details of his domestic life in an effort to widen the scope of possible poetic content.
Coleridge believed that symbolic language was the only acceptable way of expressing deep religious truths and consistently employed the sun as a symbol of God.
Coleridge explores dreams and dreaming in his poetry to communicate the power of the imagination, as well as the inaccessible clarity of vision.
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 Coleridge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition by J. Robert Barth (Studies in Religion and Literature, 3: Fordham University Press) The original edition of this book studied the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, showing that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy and theology.
Coleridge's poetic fiction reflects and comments upon the circumstances of his real life, specifically upon his intensely collaborative relationship with Wordsworth that reached its emotional climax during the annus mirabilisof1797-98.
Stevenson argues that "Christabel is Coleridge the poet,"while "Geraldine, the malignant demon whom Christabel at first unwittingly succors, is a transmogrification of Wordsworth--rather, of the worst element in Wordsworth's nature." Such a biographical approach, tactfully integrated within a discerning analysis of narrative form, enables the reader to understand this poem in a new way.
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 When Coleridge met Wordsworth | Books | Arts | Telegraph
Even while they were alive, Wordsworth and Coleridge were the equivalent of one of those 'love him, hate her' couples, and 200 years later they continue to divide their readers into opposing camps, those for the slow-burning, single-minded, self-obsessed Wordsworth and those for Coleridge, in all his chaos, mysticism and meteoric brilliance.
Coleridge was not bounding so much as rebounding into the new friendship: his relationship with the poet Robert Southey had recently ended in recrimination and regret leaving, as Coleridge said, 'a large Void in my heart' which there was 'no man big enough to fill'.
It is commonplace to assume that Wordsworth's tragic flaw was ambition and Coleridge's was addiction, but Sisman shows that it was rather Coleridge's ambition for Wordsworth as a poet and Wordsworth's addiction to Coleridge as his reader which resulted in their dreadful last scenes.
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge went his own way spending most of his time in Germany studying the existentialist, Emmanuel Kant, just as did De Quincey.
In 1814, Coleridge penned a letter to one of his friends, Joseph Cottle, which discussed candidly the conflict between his afflictions and the relief he received from laudanum.
Coleridge himself wrote a poem that fully described and spoke to his addiction to opium.
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 wbur.org Arts - Books - Coleridge's Notebooks
Coleridge knew of the power of the unconscious; his notebooks hint that he sensed that anxiety was the motive behind his compulsion to synthesize all knowledge.
Coleridge remains a giddy celebral gadfly because his notebooks, while satisfying conventional demands, are also examples of an expansive, rather than contractive, creative temperament, an acrobatic flight of heart and mind into the unknown realms of the self.
Most of Coleridge's disparate (and sometimes desperate) cogitations are driven by the writer's compulsion to prove that everything in the universe connects: inner life and outer realities, ethics and language, imagination and God, politics and psychology.
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 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the British Romantic movement, was born on October 21, 1772, in Devonshire, England.
Coleridge's father had always wanted his son to be a clergyman, so when Coleridge entered Jesus College, University of Cambridge in 1791, he focused on a future in the Church of England.
Coleridge wed in 1795, in spite of the fact that he still loved Mary Evans, who was engaged to another man. Coleridge's marriage was unhappy and he spent much of it apart from his wife.
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 CASDE | Coleridge -- Cedar County
Coleridge, in north northeast Nebraska, has the distinction of being the first railroad terminal located in Cedar County.
The railroad that gave Coleridge its beginnings was abandoned by the Chicago and North Western Railroad in 1976.
Coleridge observed its centennial in 1983 with a year of "gala activities." Now in its second century, the population stands at 680.
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 Coleridge, Mary (Perdita) Robinson, and "Kubla Khan"
It is known that Coleridge was impressed by Mrs Robinson, the beautiful former actress and courtesan, whom he described in a letter to Southey as “a woman of undoubted genius”.
It is easy to imagine Coleridge’s memory befuddled by opium, but dangerous: the editor of Coleridge’s notebooks, the late Kathleen Coburn, warns readers against this assumption, reporting that in her experience his recall is usually to be relied upon.
But I was concerned about her claim that Coleridge and Robinson met in 1796, and I decided to check the references in Godwin’s diaries, which are lodged in the Bodleian Library.
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 Coleridge
Coleridge was educated at Christ's Hospital, London and at Jesus College Cambridge.
In 1800 Coleridge moved to the Lake District to be close to Wordsworth.
This was a happier period in Coleridge's life and he became known as the 'sage of Highgate'.
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 About Samuel Taylor Coleridge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was found early the next morning by a neighbor, but the events of his night outdoors frequently showed up in imagery in his poems as well as the notebooks he kept for most of his adult life.
Coleridge was very ill around this time and probably took laudanum for the illness, thus beginning his lifelong opium addiction.
Coleridge summed himself up this way, in the epitaph he wrote for himself: Beneath this sod A Poet lies; or that which once was he.
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 coleridge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Coleridge's polymathic writings reveal familiarity with Newton's mechanics, Herschel's astronomy, Priestley's Opticks, Bartram's natural history, and Erasmus Darwin's botany, among many other scientific advances of his day.
For Coleridge, poetry, the human mind, and the natural world are often linked as part of that "one Life within us and abroad," a force that can connect the apparently disparate aspects of reality into a unity perceived by the creative intellect.
Coleridge's poetry and prose writings are shot through with images drawn from just such widespread reading and study.
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the youngest son of the vicar of Ottery St Mary, Devon, was born in 1772.
Samuel and Sarah Coleridge moved to Bristol where he lectured at Unitarian chapels and wrote over fifty articles for the Morning Chronicle that gave him the opportunity to explain the ideas of Joseph Priestley and William Godwin to a large audience.
Coleridge's writing during this period about what had gone wrong with society had a considerable influence on Christian Socialists such as Frederick Maurice and Charles Kingsley.
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