FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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The Poets society
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British Royal Navy
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Solicitors office
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Royal Dragoons
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Detailed explanation-1: -Coleridge enlisted 2nd December, 1793, as a Trooper in the 15th or King’s Regiment of Light Dragoons under the name of Silas Tomkyn Comberback.
Detailed explanation-2: -From the attic window one can still see St. Paul’s: “Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill in those years looking down on London and its smoke tumult, like a sage escaped from the inanity of life’s battle” (Thomas Carlyle).
Detailed explanation-3: -In a chance meeting that would change the course of poetic history, Samuel Taylor Coleridge made the acquaintance of William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, in Somerset in 1795. The two became immediate friends.
Detailed explanation-4: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ˈkoʊlərɪdʒ/ KOH-lə-rij; 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
Detailed explanation-5: -Coleridge himself described Biographia Literaria as an ‘immethodical miscellany’ of ‘life and opinions’. In 1906, the poet Arthur Symons called the work ‘the greatest book of criticism in English, and one of the most annoying books in any language’.