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I was reared in the great city, pent mid cloisters dim and saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. Samuel taylor coleridge 21 october 1772 25 july 1834 is writer, poet, philosopher from england. Coleridges poetry and prose by samuel taylor coleridge, 9780393979046, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. In his poem kubla khan, coleridge used dreamlike imagery to describe. Samuel taylor coleridge has 568 books on goodreads with 7441 ratings. Samuel taylor coleridge is the premier poetcritic of modern english tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Coleridge s ancient mariner and select poems by samuel taylor coleridge free ebook project gutenberg. Remembered now mostly for his opium intake and friendship with william wordsworth, samuel taylor coleridge is responsible for some of the bestknown poems in the english language. The complete poetical works of samuel taylor coleridge, including poems and versions of poems now published for the first time, ed. Poems of coleridge by samuel taylor coleridge free ebook.
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His poems directly and deeply influenced all the major poets of the age. Samuel taylor coleridge author of the rime of the ancient. Samuel taylor coleridge collection special collections. Samuel coleridgetaylor was born in 1875 in holborn, london, to alice hare martin 18561953, an english woman, and dr. Early life the son of a clergyman, coleridge was a precocious, dreamy child. Coleridge saw it in a sort of neo platonic interpretation, as the reflection of the perfect world of ideas. About samuel taylor coleridge read samuel taylor coleridge best poems. A bright representative of the lake school, the union of. Poems by samuel taylor coleridge academy of american poets. Coleridges ancient mariner and select poems by samuel taylor. Samuel taylor coleridge poems for android free download. Coleridge s poetry and prose by samuel taylor coleridge, 9780393979046, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. There are several symbols in the poem christabel by samuel taylor coleridge. The material world is nothing but the projection of the real world of ideas on the flux of time.
Mary on 21 october 1772, youngest of the ten children of john coleridge, a minister, and ann bowden coleridge. Active in the wake of the french revolution as a dissenting pamphleteer and lay preacher, he. Coleridges ancient mariner and select poems by samuel. Explore some of samuel taylor coleridge best quotations and sayings on such as language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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