LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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Question
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Which of the following was responsible for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s mental decline?
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His addiction to opium
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His experiences during the French Revolution
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The end of his friendship with Wordsworth
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His physical battle with gout
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -As is well known, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an opium addict. He took opium in the form of laudanum, that is to say tincture of opium in alcohol, which he drank by the pint.
Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who consumed opium to address his health issues.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1795 Coleridge befriended William Wordsworth, who greatly influenced Coleridge’s verse.
Detailed explanation-4: -One author who wrote candidly about both the pleasures and pains of opium use was Thomas de Quincey. His Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was first published in the London Magazine in 1821 to mixed reviews.
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