英国文学导读 (22).pdf

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Life – Born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, the 13th child of a clergyman – A lonely, sad and mentally precocious boy with some physical awkwardness – Educated first at a charity school, then at Cambridge – Joining in a utopian plan named “Pantisocracy” – Meeting with Wordsworth in 1797 and beginning poem writing – Traveling with the Wordsworths to Germany where he spent much time studying German philosophy, especially the idealism of Immanuel Kant in 1798 – Settling with his family in the