FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Byron
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Shelley
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Coleridge
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Lamb
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Detailed explanation-1: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge intended Biographia Literaria to be a short preface to a collection of his poems, Sibylline Leaves (1817).
Detailed explanation-2: -The work was originally intended as a preface to a collected volume of his poems, explaining and justifying his own style and practice in poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the most influential and controversial figures of the Romantic period, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772 the son of a clergyman in Ottery St Mary, Devon. His career as a poet and writer was established after he befriended Wordsworth and together they produced Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1798, the two poets joined together to publish the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that is considered by many to be the definitive starting point of the Romantic Era.