Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the founders of Romantic movement of English literature. The life, poems, critical works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge will be analyzed here for easy understanding of students. An overview and summary of his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel and notes on Biographia Literaria will be provided here.
Timeline of important dates of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Born
21 October 1772
Died
25 July 1834 ( Coleridge was 61 when he died.
Place of birth
Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, England
Education
Jesus College, Cambridge (1791 – 1794)Christ’s Hospital (1782 – 1790)
Father
John Coleridge
Mother
Anne Bowden (Coleridge)
Children
Sara Coleridge
Berkeley Coleridge
Derwent Coleridge
Hartley Coleridge
Honors
Browne medal for Greek ode in the year 1792
Literary Period
Romanticism, Romantic Movement
Important Works
Christabel
Constancy to an Ideal Object
Dejection: An Ode
The Eolian Harp
Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends
Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro’ the busy scud
Fragment 2: I know ’tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish
Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?
Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn
Fragment 9: The Netherlands
France: An Ode
Frost at Midnight
The Good, Great Man
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
The Knight’s Tomb
Kubla Khan
Love
Love’s Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
The Nightingale
On Donne’s Poem “To a Flea”
On Donne’s Poetry
The Pains of Sleep
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
Something Childish, but Very Natural
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
To Asra
Work without Hope
Youth and Age
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Question 1
In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature?
A
1789
B
1779
C
1795
D
1798
Question 2
Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
A
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
B
Christabel
C
Kubla Khan
D
Biographia Literaria
Question 3
When was Samuel Taylor Coleridge born?
A
November 12, 1762
B
October 21, 1772
C
January 10, 1789
D
September 8 , 1764
Question 4
In which establishment Coleridge enlisted himself in December 1793 by using the false name "Silas Tomkyn Comberbache"?
A
Solicitors office
B
Royal Dragoons
C
The Poets society
D
British Royal Navy
Question 4 Explanation:
The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) was a mounted infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1661, and served until 1969, when it was amalgamated with the Royal Horse Guards to form The Blues and Royals.
Question 5
With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic movement in English Literature?
A
Lord Byron
B
John Keats
C
Shelley
D
William Wordsworth
Question 6
Who is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
A
Ralph Waldo Emerson
B
Ernest Holmes
C
John Locke
D
John Locke
Question 7
What is the name of the short-lived journal that Coleridge established?
A
The Romantic Philosophy
B
The Explicator
C
The Spectator
D
The Watchman
Question 8
When did Samuel Taylor Coleridge die?
A
30 April 1822
B
22 November 1836
C
25 July 1834
D
24 February 1841
Question 9
In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term 'willing suspension of disbelief' in 1817?
A
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
B
Kubla Khan
C
Biographia Literaria
D
Christabel
Question 10
With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ's Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School?
A
Shelley
B
William Wordsworth
C
Charles Lamb
D
John Keats
Question 11
The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal?
A
On the creativity of human mind
B
On supernatural elements in poetry
C
On romantic philosophy
D
On the slave trade
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Short Summary of important poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by Coleridge. It is written in 1797–98 and published in the year 1798. This poem included in the the first edition of Lyrical Ballads This poem and the first edition of Lyrical Ballads marks the the beginning of British Romantic literature.
The poem narrates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long journey.The crew begin journey but their ship adrift to Antarctica. But, an albatross appears and leads the sailors out of Antarctica to the safe sea. The sailor shoots the Albatross and summons the wrath of the natural forces. On their journey they encounter another ship of ghost in which the Death and a pale woman are place dice for the lives of the marines. One by one the lives of the mariners are taken. The life of the mariner is spared and when he appreciates beauty of the creatures around him the curse that has fallen on him when he shot the albatross is lifted.
Kubla Khan - Samuel Tylor Coleridge : Notes - UGC NET English
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