Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), the youngest of the ten children of a Devon clergyman, was sent to London, after his father's death, to the school of Christ's Hospital. He left Cambridge without a degree and formed with Southey a plan for an egalitarian community in America, abandoned in 1795. The Somerset years, near Wordsworth, saw the birth of his most famous poems. Opium, taken at first against illness, never left him. He later produced a critical autobiography and lectures on Shakespeare, and lived his last years at Highgate, at a doctor's house, visited for his conversation.

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• PoetryThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Literature