Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 45 pages of information about the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 45 pages of information about the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This section contains 13,336 words
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Active in the wake of the French Revolution as a dissenting pamphleteer and lay preacher, he inspired a brilliant generation of writers and attracted the patronage of progressive men of the rising middle class in the west country around Bristol. As William Wordsworth's collaborator and constant companion in the formative period of their careers as poets, Coleridge participated in the sea change in English verse associated with Lyrical Ballads (1798). His poems of this period, speculative, meditative, and strangely oracular, put off early readers but survived the doubts of Wordsworth and Robert Southey, future poets laureate, to become recognized classics of the romantic idiom.

Coleridge renounced poetic vocation in his thirtieth year and set out to define and defend the art as...

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