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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 ...
"Yes, yes! that boon, life's richest treat" 1827 1828 To Mary Pridham [afterwards Mrs. Derwent Coleridge]. "Dear tho' unseen! tho' I have left behind" 1827 1827, October 16 Alice du Clos; or, The Forked Tongue. A Ballad. One word with two meanings is the traitor's shield and shaft: and a slit tongue be his blazon!'—Caucasian Proverb.
Christabel. Christabel is a long narrative ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts.The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed.
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 ...
20th-century literary critics often categorise eight of Coleridge's poems (The Eolian Harp, Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement, This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, Frost at Midnight, Fears in Solitude, The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, Dejection: An Ode, To William Wordsworth) as a group, usually as his "conversation poems".
The "person on business from Porlock" was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem "Kubla Khan" in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium -induced haze), but was interrupted by this visitor who came "on business from Porlock " while in the ...
"Dura Navis" is dominated by the image of a voyage that is possibly a reference to Frank Coleridge, Coleridge's brother and a sailor. Although Frank left home at the age of 11, there are parallels to Coleridge's own life and his loneliness at Christ's Hospital. [ 9 ]
When Coleridge's Poems on Various Subjects was reviewed, few reviewers paid attention to Lines Written at Shurton Bars. [15] John Aikin, in the June 1796 Monthly Review, states, "The most of [the 'poetical Epistles'], addressed to his 'Sara', is rather an ode, filled with picturesque imagery: of which the follow stanzas [lines 36–60] compose a very striking sea-piece". [16]