ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A thorough record of Christ’s Hospital is to be found in several essays by Lamb as well as The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt and the Biographia Literaria of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom Charles developed a friendship that would last for their entire lives.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -He producing other important works, such as Aids to Reflection (1825), and became known as the “sage of Highgate” for the power and influence of his conversation. His Table Talk was collected and published after his death by his son in law, Henry Nelson Coleridge.