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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Life (Influenced by French revolutionary ideals.,…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life
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After the disillusionment with the French Revolution, he planned a utopian commune-like society, Pantisocracy, in Pennsylvania. This project came to an end.
Studied at Christ’s Hospital School in London, and then in Cambridge, but never graduated.
Fruitful artistic collaboration with the poet and friend William Wordsworth in the 1797-1799 period.
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Main works
1816 Christabel, an unfinished narrative poem.
1816 the dreamlike poem Kubla Khan, composed under the influence of opium.
1798 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the first poem of the collection Lyrical Ballads.
1817 Biographia Literaria, a classic
text of literary criticism and autobiography.
Theme
Imagination
Primary
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Creative, original, used unconsciously
Secondary
Poetic faculty, which not only gives shape and order to a given world, but builds new worlds.
Fancy
A kind of logical faculty: the mechanical ability the poet has to use devices, like metaphors, alliterations in poetry in order to blend various «ingredients» into beautiful images
Nature
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Unlike Wordsworth, it is not a moral guide or a source of consolation.
Coleridge saw it in a sort of neo- Platonic interpretation, as the reflection of the perfect world of “ideas”. .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. ......................................................................................................The material world is nothing but the projection of the real world of “ideas” on the flux of time.
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