AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Question
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A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
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Heroine
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Cocaine
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Alcohol
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Opium
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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: -This was especially true within the circle of Romantic poets, specifically Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey, who suffered from addiction to opium.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kubla Khan, in full Kubla Khan; or, a Vision in a Dream, poetic fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1816. According to Coleridge, he composed the 54-line work while under the influence of laudanum, a form of opium.
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