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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He is born in Devon in 1772 and he died in London on 25 July 1834
1° opera: 1796 published his first volume of
Poems on Various Subjects
Study:
he went to Christ's Hospital School in London
Greek
Latin
Hebrew
English literature
In 1791 he went to Jesus College at Cambridge University
In 1794 left Cambridge without graduating
In 1793 he enlisted in the army but left after five months
Vita: he married Sarah Fricker and they moved to a cottage in the countryside near Bristol
This marker the beginning of a long period of
literary co-coperation and friendship with William Wordsworth
Together the two men published the
Lyrical Ballads
in 1798
In 1798 he and Wordsworth went to Germany, where Colderige was gratly
impressed by the principles of idealistic philosophy
He acquired a good command of the German language and began translatin
In 1816 he moved to London
published
Christabel and Kubla Khan
published Biographia Literaria, which contained his finest literary criticism
The fantastic and supernatural
Coleridge is remembered chiefly for three great poems:
Christabel
Kubla Khan
The rime of the Ancient Mariner
Coleridge's contribution to Romantic poetry is found in a return to the magical and supernatural
