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Samuel Taylor Coleridge His poems are full of vague symbolism and supernatural phenomena, seldom touching the relationships in the human world. I. A brief biography Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, the son of a clergyman. At the age of nine, his father died. One year later he was sent away to school at Christ’s Hospital in London and seldom went back home. He was a lonely, sad and mentally precocious boy, full of dreams in his mind. However, he found the school an excellent one, for it grace I. A brief biography him the intellectual nurture he needed, as well as a lifelong friend, Charles Lamb. But the university. But the university life at Cambridge bored him. He fell into idleness, had trouble with his instructor, and got into debt. In despair, he betook himself to London and enlisted in the 15th Dragoon, but was discharged after a few months and returned to Cambridge, where He finished his study however, but left without a degree. Inspired by the redical thinkers with their idealism, Coleridge joined Robert Southey in a utopian plan of establishing an ideal democratic community in America, named “Pantisocracy.” The plan resulted in nothing but his marriage to Sara Fricker, which turned out to be an unhappy one. In the spring of 1797, Coleriage met and began his long friendship with William Wordsworth. Falling under Wordsworth’s spell, Coleridge creative energies were awakened and he began to devote himself to poetry writing. In 1798, the two men published a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, which became a landmark in English poetry. Coleridge’s poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” was included in the volume. The year 1797 and 1798 were among the more fruitful of Coleridge’s life. In addition to “The Ancient Mariner,” he wrote “Kubla Khan,” began writing “Christabel,” and composed “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” “Frost at Midnight,” and “The Nightingale,” which are considered to be his best “conversational” poems. In