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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge information - Search.com
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772 in Ottery St Mary in Devonshire.
Coleridge was critical of the literary taste of his contemporaries, and a literary conservative insofar as he was afraid that the lack of taste in the ever growing masses of literate people would mean a continued desecration of literature itself.
Coleridge was the father of Hartley Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, and Derwent Coleridge and grandfather of Herbert Coleridge, Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Christabel Coleridge.
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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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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge - LoveToKnow 1911
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834), English poet and philosopher, was born on the 21st of October 1772, at his father's vicarage of Ottery St Mary's, Devonshire.
Coleridge was anxious to embody a dream of a friend, and the suggestion of the shooting of the albatross came from Wordsworth, who gained the idea from Shelvocke's Voyage (1726).
Coleridge died in the communion of the Church of England, of whose polity and teaching he had been for many years a loving admirer.
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772 in Ottery St Mary in Devonshire.
Coleridge was critical of the literary taste of his contemporaries, and a literary conservative insofar as he was afraid that the lack of taste in the ever growing masses of literate people would mean a continued desecration of literature itself.
Coleridge was the father of Hartley Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, and Derwent Coleridge and grandfather of Herbert Coleridge, Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Christabel Coleridge.
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772-July 25, 1834) was a poet, philosopher, and romantic visionary, an inescapable presence in early 19th-century England.
Samuel was the youngest of 13 children of an Anglican clergyman in Ottery St Mary, a Devonshire village.
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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Nelson Coleridge, British lawyer, nephew and son-in-law of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Herbert Coleridge, British philologist and lexicographer, son of Sara Coleridge and Henry Nelson Coleridge
Sara Coleridge, British writer, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and wife of her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge
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Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire.
Coleridge's powerful representation of psychological obsession and remorse, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, was the poem chosen to open the Lyrical Ballads.
This doomed romantic attachment and Coleridge's failing health, doubtless exacerbated by his increasing dependence on laudanum, an elixir of opium, led him to accept a post in the warmer climate of Malta as secretary to the acting governor from 1804 to 1806, after which he traveled through Italy.
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Coleridge's fame and reputation suffered, both in his own time and today, because of his presumed-to-be-unhealthy interest in German philosophy--a price Barfield too has paid in a century in which Germany has inaugurated two world wars.
As a scientist, as a knower, he largely confined himself to the realm of natural science and his regular industry combined with his great genius had by the end of his life illuminated this realm with a steadily increasing flood of light.
Coleridge never succeeded in finding his feet on earth at all.
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biography - Poems
Samuel Taylor "Estese" Coleridge, was born in Otterey St Mary, England on October 21st, 1772.
Coleridge was suppose to fight in France, however he escaped and was soon arranged to discharged by his brother George on reasons of insanity.
Coleridge and Wordsworth left for Germany with William's sister Dorothy in the autumn of 1798.
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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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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biography and Works
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads,(1798) written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, as the youngest son of the vicar of Ottery St Mary.
Coleridge was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1824.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772 in Ottery St Mary in Devonshire.
Coleridge was critical of the literary taste of his contemporaries, and a literary conservative insofar as he was afraid that the lack of taste in the ever growing masses of literate people would mean a continued desecration of literature itself.
Coleridge was the father of Hartley Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, and Derwent Coleridge and grandfather of Herbert Coleridge, Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Christabel Coleridge.
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a British Romantic poet and philosopher who had incalculable impact in shaping American Transcendentalism.
Coleridge was a pure Transcendentalist, of the Schelling school.
The name of Coleridge was spoken with profound reverence, his books were studied industriously, and the terminology of transcendentalism was as familiar as commonplace in the circles of divines and men of letters.
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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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 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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 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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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The marriage of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Jessie Walmisley.
Boyd's Dante, Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner,' and the pattern of infernal influence.(Reverend Henry Boyd; Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Coleridge's "The raven" and the forging of radicalism.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(Critical Essay)
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 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:Mixed-Race Icons:Intermix.org.uk
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, was born in London in 1875 to Daniel Taylor, a surgeon who came to England from Sierra Leone and his wife a 17-year-old English woman formerly named Alice Holmans.
Samuel and his mother moved to Croydon where a local violin teacher Joseph Beckworth noticed Samuel’s talent for the stringed instrument and took him under his wing.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor died aged just 37 in 1912 from a bout of double pneumonia but as his daughter so aptly put it in her biography of him the Heritage Of Samuel Coleridge Taylor: ‘A composer is not as other men.
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The book contained much invective against William Pitt, and in later life Coleridge declared that, with this exception, and a few pages involving philosophical tenets which he afterwards rejected, there was little or nothing he desired to retract.
But between 1812 and 1817 Coleridge made a good deal by his work, and was able to send money to his wife in addition to the annuity she received.
In the latter part of his life, and for the generation which followed, Coleridge was ranked by many young English churchmen of liberal views as the greatest religious thinker of their time.
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 A Biographical Sketch by blupete: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): "Wrecked in a Mist of Opium."   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Samuel Coleridge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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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 About Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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 Samuel Coleridge Biography
COLERIDGE was born at Ottery, St. Mary, Devonshire, England, October 21, 1772 (given 1773 by some of his biographers), and on July 25, 1834, he passed away, and was buried in the vault of Highgate Church on August 2.
His father was a clergyman, and was known for his scholarship, simplicity of character, and interest in the pupils of the grammar school where he taught before devoting his full time to the ministry.
Wordsworth's sister describes Coleridge as "thin and pale, the lower part of his face not good, wide mouth, thick lips, not very good teeth, longish, loose, half-curling, rough, fl hair," - but all was forgotten in the magic charm of his utterance.
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 Samuel Taylor 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 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.
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 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1875 – 1912   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn in 1875.
Samuel must have shown a talent for music at an early age.
Samuel was a pupil of exceptional ability and went on to produce a great deal of concert music which drew on traditional fl music.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He also was reported to have been, according to Dorothy Wordsworth, a "terrible lover" and "one whose realm is not that of the land twixt the sheets," alluding to the fact that opium caused him to have terrible gynecomastia and erectile dysfunction.
Coleridge's treatment of the German idealist philosophers in the Biographia Literaria has been subject to the accusation of plagiarism.
Coleridge was the father of Hartley Coleridge and Sara Coleridge, and grandfather of Herbert Coleridge and Ernest Hartley Coleridge.
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 PlanetPapers - Samuel Coleridge's Kubla Khan and Materialism
Coleridge shows a sensitive appreciation of the nature on which the pleasure dome in built throughout the first stanza in which he describes it.
Coleridge ends Alph’s journey as it “sinks in tumult to a lifeless ocean.” The significance of this image is not necessarily part of Coleridge’s message, but it is an example of the romantic poet’s rebellion against science.
Coleridge’s Kubla Khan is not simply a musical masterpiece or a vivid experience; it is full of meaningful ideas: All of the ones people believe and yet at the same time none of them at all.
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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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