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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, b. 21 Oct
1772, d. 25 July 1834, was one of the
greast English romantic poets and
essayists. He was also a sometime
philosopher and critic.
   Born the son of a clergyman,
Coleridge attended Christ's Hospital
in London before entering Cambridge.
Weary of the bookish life, and
entangled in a bad marriage, he moved
to Somerset in 1797, where he met
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poet William Wordsworth and his
sister Dorothy, the former of which
became his close friend and together
they composed the "Lyrical Ballads"
(1798). The "Lyrical Ballads" was a
collection of poetry including such
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poems as "Rime of the Ancient
Mariner", "Christabel" and, of
course, "Kubla Khan". These poems
established his reputation as a poet
and further demonstrated his command
of the mysterious, demonic side of
British romanticism.
   Coleridge's marital difficulties,
only temporarily assuaged by
remarriage to Sara Hutchinson, were
compounded by his laudanum addiction,
a drug formed by dissolving opium in
ethyl alcohol. These trials sapped
his talent, and after 1802, in which
his last great poem, appropriately
titled "Dejection: An Ode", was done,
he went to Malta to pursue politics,
philosophy and literary criticism.
   In 1816 he returned to London
because of faltering health, where he
was separated from his wife. Until
his lingering death he wrote volumes
of essays, although they were not
well known or studied; the most
notable work of this period is his
Biographica Literaria (1817), which
proposes a unifying synthesizing
power of poetry. He finally succumbed
to his increasing health problems
some 17 years later, surrounded by
literary aspirants and admirers.

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