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th-29 COLERIDGE (biography) - Coggle Diagram
COLERIDGE (biography)
Born in Devonshire in 1772 from a learned clergyman - after his father's death he was sent as a charity boy to Christ's Hospital School in London, where he proved a precocious student and a brilliant talker.
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received an excellent education in the Classics, even though he didn't graduate from Cambridge (he was disappointed at not winning a prize for poetry and left university)
during the university years he was heavily influenced by French revolutionary ideals, which made him an enthousiastic republican
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1794: he meets poets Robert Southey : he plans to emigrate to America and found a utopian society called PANTISOCRACY, which was supposed to be an idealistic community made up of 12 men and 12 women all enjoying equal rights and living and working as a community where private ownership was abolished. Yet, the project came to nothing.
1795: he meets poet William Wordsworth and settles in the Lake District ==> IMPORTANT COLLABORATION, MOST FERTILE PERIOD
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KUBLA KHAN (1798)
unfinished poem, a 54-line fragment was written (probably under the influence of opium) in 1798 and published only in 1816
1801: he began to increase the opium doses he had been taking since his Cambridge days because of increasing rheumatic pains
He spends the last years of his life in relative serenity, with his opium addiction kept under control by a physician, giving lectures, writing for newspapers and holding an open house on Thursday nights for a group of young admirers.