ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Coleridge’s first year was essentially a studious and dutiful one. At the end of it he won the University’s Browne Gold Medal for a Greek Sapphic Ode, an attack on the slave trade.

Detailed explanation-2: -He won the Browne Gold Medal for a Sapphic ode that he wrote on the slave trade, and, a year later in 1793, he competed again for the Browne Medal but his ode on astronomy only won him second place. Coleridge often wrote and Latin and would include his poetry in letters he wrote to others.

Detailed explanation-3: -France an Ode was written by Samuel Coleridge in April 1798. The poem describes his development from supporting the French Revolution to his feelings of betrayal when they invaded Switzerland. Like other poems by Coleridge, it connects his political views with his religious thoughts.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -As a poet of the supernatural, Coleridge strictly eschewed crudeness from his writings. He gives supernatural his supernatural the solid base of the dramatic truth of human emotions so that howsoever improbable the events might appear, the authenticity of human experience is never violated.