Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE

Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE

1. Devon(English county) 1772 - London 1834

   • opium as painkiller
     • Cambridge but no degree
       • heavy drinking and French revolution supporter
         • Somerset - Wordsworth
           • Lake district - journalism
             • Italy and London

2. Romantic writer

   • Works
     • Poems on various subject 1796
       • Lyrical Ballads 1798
         • Christabel and other poems 1816
           • Biographia Literaria 1817
             • criticism, philosophical reflection and autobiography
         • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
           • seven parts
             • Mariner
               • Albatross
                 • curse
                   • Death and Life-in-Death
                     • burden of guilt
           • realistic and supernatural elements
             • sea-monsters, spirits
           • archaic language
             • sea-voyage = parable of mankind
               • albatross kill = original sin
         • Wordsworth

3. share of French revolution ideals

   • Wordsworth = Conservative turn

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