ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where did Coleridge go to college?
A
UC
B
Yale
C
Jesus College
D
Dartmouth
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1747, he was accepted into Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, at the age of 28, and studied classics and Hebrew. After finishing college, the younger John Coleridge became a teacher in Devon.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Elizabethan poet, dramatist and statesman. John Flamsteed, the English astronomer and first Astronomer Royal. Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury, noted Whig and Hanoverian supporter. Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and Anglican clergyman.

Detailed explanation-3: -In December 1793, his debts out of control and severely depressed, he abandoned his studies and, without telling anyone but his former schoolmates from Christ’s Hospital, enlisted in the Royal Dragoons under the name Silas Tomkyn Comberbache.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jesus College was founded in June 1571 by a group of Welshmen led by Hugh Price, a lawyer, clergyman and Treasurer of St. David’s Cathedral.

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