“With unclosed lids, already had I dreamt/Of my sweet birth-place.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.
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culture · English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1773–1834) · poet · philosopher · theologian · literary critic · critic · writer · also Samuel Taylor Coleridge, S. T. Coleridge, Coleridge
Born 21 October 1772 · Died 25 July 1834 · Q82409
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2026· 7 entries
“an eye-witness of the direful effects”
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“s books and The Mad Monk, among others. He comments in his reviews:”
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“At six years old I remember to have read Belisarius, Robinson Crusoe, and Philip Quarll – and then I found the Arabian Nights”
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Financial Times: Letter: Coleridge-Taylor and the Performing Right Society
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The Guardian: Coleridge-Taylor and Dvořák Violin Concertos album review – shrewd pairing, with Gil Shaham fluid and imposing
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Public attention spiked: 2,667 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 654, with 8 article edits. Editors noted: script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Samuel Taylor Coleridge wanted to ‘bid farewell’ to writing at 22, letter reveals
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Welsh mansion that inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge on the verge of collapse
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: From Romantics to 21st century radicals: Coleridge, Shelley and the roots of communal living
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The Guardian: In Somerset did Kubla Khan: Coleridge manuscript returns to poem’s source
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Phantom or Fact: A Dialogue in Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicholson review – Coleridge and Wordsworth's year
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2006· 1 entry
Robert Koelzer wrote about another aspect of this apparent "easiness", noting that Conversation poems such as "Coleridge's The Eolian Harp and The Nightingale maintain a middle register of speech, employing an idiomatic
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2002· 2 entries
Successfully resolved the philosophical issues he had been exploring for most of his adult life
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"Abrams credited Coleridge with originating what Abrams called the 'greater Romantic lyric', a genre that began with Coleridge's 'Conversation' poems, and included Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Ab
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1928· 1 entry
By George McLean Harper, who borrowed the subtitle of The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem to describe the seven other poems as well
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1834· 2 entries
Died 1834-07-25.
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“Quem se vangloria de ter conquistado uma multidão de amigos nunca teve um.”
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1816· 1 entry
But known in manuscript form before then) and certainly influenced other poets and writers of the time
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1815· 1 entry
And finished in 1817), a volume composed of 23 chapters of autobiographical notes and dissertations on various subjects, including some incisive literary theory and criticism
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1812· 1 entry
Allowed Robert Southey to make use of extracts from his vast number of private notebooks in their collaboration Omniana; Or, Horae Otiosiores
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1809· 1 entry
Coleridge made his second attempt to become a newspaper publisher with the publication of the journal entitled The Friend
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1808· 1 entry
Quarrelled with Wordsworth in 1810, lost part of his annuity in 1811, and put himself under the care of Dr
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1804· 2 entries
Travelled to Sicily and Malta, working for a time as Acting Public Secretary of Malta under the Civil Commissioner, Alexander Ball, a task he performed successfully
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“The few friends who have been Witnesses of my domestic life have long advised separation as the necessary condition of everything desirable for me...”
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1802· 1 entry
Coleridge took a nine-day walking holiday in the fells of the Lake District
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1800· 1 entry
Returned to England and shortly thereafter settled with his family and friends in Greta Hall at Keswick in the Lake District of Cumberland to be near Grasmere, where Wordsworth had moved
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1797· 1 entry
“Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me”
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1772· 1 entry
Born 1772-10-21.
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