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Coleridge attended the school Christ's Hospital, and he was often at the sanatorium for illness while there.The poems "Pain", "A Few Lines" and "Genevieve" were written during his final year, but he experienced various illnesses during his stay that were the result of either chronic illness or illnesses resulting from his own actions, including swimming across the New River which resulted in ...
The Pains of Sleep. "Ere on my bed my limbs I lay," 1803 1816 The Exchange "We pledged our hearts, my love and I,—" 1804 1804, April 16 Ad Vilmum Axiologum. [To William Wordsworth.] "This be the meed, that thy song creates a thousand-fold echo!" 1805? 1893 An Exile. "Friend, Lover, Husband, Sister, Brother!" 1805 1893 Sonnet. [Translated from ...
The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. Coleridge prepared for the first two parts to be published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, his collection of poems with William Wordsworth, but left it out on Wordsworth's advice. The exclusion ...
Coleridge originally had no intention of making his notebooks public, but in his later years he came to think of them as a legacy to be passed down to his disciples. He even allowed his friend Robert Southey to use a number of extracts in their collaborative work Omniana, published in 1812 and reprinted in an expanded form in 1836.
The sleep of this story is said by Coleridge to be a sleep of opium, and Kubla Khan may be read as an early poetic description of this drug experience. The fact that the poem is generally regarded as one of Coleridge's best is one reason for the continuing interest and debate about the opium's role in his creative output and in Romanticism in ...
Sleep quotes that’ll make you crave shut-eye A good night’s sleep isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity . Sleep provides a daily physical and mental reset that your body requires to function.
During Coleridge's 1793 summer vacation from Christ's Hospital, he stayed with his family members in Ottery St Mary, Devon. [1] Both "Songs of the Pixies" and the smaller "To Miss Dashwood Bacon", written during this time, refer to The Pixies' Parlour, a place near Ottery and to events taking place during Coleridge's vacation: the locals during that time dubbed Miss Boutflower as "fairy queen ...
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