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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born | Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born as the tenth and last child of the vicar of Ottery Saint Mary near Devonshire, England and he died on the 25th of July in 1834 in Highgate, England. | ||
His father died in 1782 and he was sent to Christ's Hospital for his school education. Dispte a certain eagerness to study he described his school years as depressing, moping and friendless. In 1791 he entered Jesus College, Cambridge, England. In 1793 Coleridge joined the 15th Light Dragoons, a British cavalry unit, due to financial problems. After his discharge in April 1794, he returned to Jesus College but left in the same year without completing a degree, because of his developing friendship with Robert Southey (1774–1843). | |||
He and his friend both shared the same interest in poetry and dislike for the tradition of a return to the Greek and Latin classics. They were also rather radical in politics, since they developed the vision of a "pantisocracy" - an ideal community - to be founded in America. Their utopian plan, however, never came into being. | |||
In 1795 Coleridge got married to Sara Fricker, who happened to be the sister of Southey's future wife. The relation between Coleridge and Southey, however, was not a life-time friendship. | |||
== Major Works == | == Major Works == | ||
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One of the major British Romantic poets. The Romatic period is a literary movement characterized by imagination, passion, and the supernatural and thus his works evolve around for example Ancient Mariners, Vampires and Nightingales.
Biography
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born as the tenth and last child of the vicar of Ottery Saint Mary near Devonshire, England and he died on the 25th of July in 1834 in Highgate, England. His father died in 1782 and he was sent to Christ's Hospital for his school education. Dispte a certain eagerness to study he described his school years as depressing, moping and friendless. In 1791 he entered Jesus College, Cambridge, England. In 1793 Coleridge joined the 15th Light Dragoons, a British cavalry unit, due to financial problems. After his discharge in April 1794, he returned to Jesus College but left in the same year without completing a degree, because of his developing friendship with Robert Southey (1774–1843). He and his friend both shared the same interest in poetry and dislike for the tradition of a return to the Greek and Latin classics. They were also rather radical in politics, since they developed the vision of a "pantisocracy" - an ideal community - to be founded in America. Their utopian plan, however, never came into being. In 1795 Coleridge got married to Sara Fricker, who happened to be the sister of Southey's future wife. The relation between Coleridge and Southey, however, was not a life-time friendship.
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