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* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads, written with Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement. his metaphysical anxiety, anticipating modern existentialism, has gained him reputation as an authentic visionary. a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism. Major Literary Works three poems of demonism The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1798 Khubla Khan 1816 Christabel 1816 Prose work or Literary autobiography Biographia Literaria 1817 a series of lectures on Shakespeare Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare Coleridge and opium Throughout his adult life, Coleridge suffered from crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it has been speculated by some that he suffered from bipolar disorder, a condition as yet unidentified during his lifetime. Coleridge suffered from poor health that may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these concerns with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction. Kubla Khan Or A Vision in a Dream, A Fragment “Kubla Khan” is a dream-poem. In the summer of 1797 the author had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton. He had taken anodyne and after three hours sleep he woke up with a clear image of the poem. Disturbed by a visitor, he lost the vision, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images. Modern scholarship is skeptical of this story, but it reflects Coleridges problems to manage practical life and finish his ideas. Themes of Kubla Khan Kubla Khan is about poetry and the two sections discuss two types of poems. The power of the imagination is an important component to this theme. Through use of the imagination, the poem is able to discuss issues surrounding tyranny, war, and contrasts that exist within paradise. The water imagery is also related to the divine and nature, a