Samuel Coleridge

1772 – 1834 (England)

- Poet- Founding

Romantic

BBC.co.uk: Coleridge

“Remembered now mostly for his opium intake and

friendship with William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is responsible for

some of the best-known poems in the English

language.”BBC.co.uk Poets

Lyrical Ballads: “The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them . . . in a selection of language really used by men, and . . . throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect.” “Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because . . . passions of the heart find a better soil” . . . and “are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.” William Wordsworth, 1798

“The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”Caspar David Friedrich, 1818

Rime of the Ancient

Mariner

(1798)

“The Poem of my Friend has indeed great defects.” . . . “Yet the Poem contains many delicate touches of

passion, and indeed the passion is every where true to nature, a great number of

the stanzas present beautiful images, and are expressed with unusual felicity

of language.”.

William Wordsworth

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.” 1797

Kubla Khan (Xanadu)

in art

Christabel Coleridge’s unfinished tale of vampiric Geraldine and her plots against protagonist Christabel resonates today in countless vampire stories. 1797 / 1800

Frost at MidnightThe hopes Coleridge expressed here for his son, Hartley, did not come to fruition.

1798

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Opium: Coleridge’s infamous struggle with addiction has overshadowed his poetry for some.

According to Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge was “thin and pale, the lower part of his face not good, [with a] wide mouth, thick lips, not very good teeth, longish, loose, half-curling, rough, black hair.”

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