ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Though Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a Romantic writer, he participated in the gothic genre. His poem “Christabel” is a prime example of his supernatural work.

Detailed explanation-2: -His most famous works – ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘Christabel’ – all featured supernatural themes and exotic images, perhaps affected by his use of the drugs.

Detailed explanation-3: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the leading English Romantic poets, whose Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 collection Coleridge co-authored with Wordsworth, became a founding-text for English Romanticism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Features of Coleridge’s Poetry Realism: He exercises an imaginative realism. Medievalism present: Medievalism is present everywhere in Coleridge’s poetry. The whole of Rime of Ancient Mariner is wrought with the color and glamour of Middle Ages.