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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772-1834. Coleridge. Gifted writer hampered by poor health Opium addict due to severe rheumatism (condition characterized by inflammation or pain in muscles, joints, or fibrous tissue) Estranged from wife Suffered terrifying nightmares.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834

  2. Coleridge • Gifted writer hampered by poor health • Opium addict due to severe rheumatism (condition characterized by inflammation or pain in muscles, joints, or fibrous tissue) • Estranged from wife • Suffered terrifying nightmares

  3. Literary Qualities • Concerned w/exotic, strange, faraway • Supernatural, mystical, spiritual world • Role of imagination

  4. Literature • Lyrical Ballads – coauthored with good friend William Wordsworth

  5. “Kubla Khan” • Came to him during a drug-induced sleep after reading about Kubla Khan, a 13th century Mongol ruler • Began writing the poem when he awoke • He was interrupted by a visitor at line 54 and was unable to remember the rest of the poem • Considered a ‘fragment’/unfinished • Oriental setting • Greatest expression of exotic, strange, faraway in Romantic poetry

  6. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” • Classic work in English literature • Mystic, occult, supernatural, horrific

  7. Page 7 of 30 • Grab a book • Open to page 742

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