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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, coleridge - Coggle Diagram
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
BIOGRAPHY
Adult life
1799-1810 were full of worries anf frustation for Coleridge, but he had already written some of his best poetry.
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in 1810 he quarrelled with his greatest friend, Wordsworth.
Death
in his latter years, reconciled with Wordsworth, he became the leading personality of a group of artists and intellectuals, attracted by his wit and hypnotic eloquence.
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Early life
Coleridge was born in 1772 at Ottery St Mary, Devon.
his father died when he was eight, and he was sent to Christian's Hospital, a charity school in London.
in 1791 he went to Cambridge, but he didn't find the intellectual life there stimulating enough and left in 1794 without graduating.
in 1797 Coleridge settled at Nether Stowey, Somerset, where William Wordsworth and his sister also lived.
the two poets collaboreted for the production of the "Lyrical Ballads"(1798), a collection which included Coleridge's most famous poem.
after a winter in Germany, Coleridge and the Wordsworths settled in the Lake District.
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