Island of Freedom Homer Sophocles Virgil Ovid ... Auden To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal Home Theologians Philosophers Poets ... Siddhartha Samuel Taylor Coleridge PLACES: S. T. Coleridge Archive - poetry and prose About Samuel Taylor Coleridge - complete text of some of his works, links to other resources, and a forum for people asking questions and wishing to leave comments POEMS: Kubla Khan Love Frost at Midnight The Pains of Sleep ... Constancy to an Ideal Object Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a major English romantic poet and essayist. He was associated with William Wordsworth , with whom he wrote the Lyrical Ballads , an extremely influential collection of poems. He was also a major philosopher and literary critic, opposing the empiricism of 18th-century British philosophy with an idealist system, partly derived from German thinkers, that regarded the mind as active rather than passive in its ability to create through the faculty of imagination. Born on Oct. 21, 1772, the son of a clergyman, Coleridge attended Christ's Hospital in London. From 1791 until 1794 he attended Jesus College, University of Cambridge. At the university he absorbed political and theological ideas then considered radical, especially those of Unitarianism. Dreamy and bookish, he soon wearied of college life and enlisted in the dragoons. In 1794 Coleridge met the equally radical and idealistic poet Robert Southey, and together the two planned a utopian community, or pantisocracy, to be founded on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the United States. In preparation for the community, Coleridge proposed to the sister of Southey's fiancee; when the scheme collapsed he went through with the marriage, although he felt little affection. | |
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