Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Son of the vicar of Ottery St. Mary in Devon (England) he studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he met Robert Southey, with whom he designed the 'Pantisocracy', the ideal model of society, initially composed of twelve women and twelve men who should have been built in the United States on the banks of the Susquehanna. In 1795 the married Sara Fricker, Southey's wife's sister. His first poetic verses appear in 1793 on the Morning Chronicle, while the following year published The Fall of Robespierre act play, written for four hands with the same Southey. In 1795 began his association with Wordsworth, with whom he spent a year in Somerset. Stay during which you add and Dorothy Sara Fricker, the sister of Wordsworth. In 1796 he founded the literary magazine, The Watchman, but does not reach the tenth number.
In 1797 he composed the first part of Christabel and Kubla Khan. In 1798, together with the public Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads. The French Revolution in the same year he wrote France, an Ode. After his stay in Germany with Wordsworth made public the 1798-99 season Wallenstein, translation of the Piccolomini and Death of Wallenstein Schiller. Between 1800 and 1804 lives in Keswick, where he composes the second part of Cristabel. In the two subsequent years in Italy and Malta. In 1806, on his return to England, suffering from physical problems because of the usual assumptions of opium. Lecturer becomes acute and whimsical for the Royal Institute in 1808 and the following year he founded a new periodical, The Friend, ethical, political and literary weekly that will appear in volume in 1818. On The Friend published the story "The Three Graves," written several years earlier. The last twenty years of his life he spent his host of friends, mainly by John Morgan in Hammersmith and Calne, at James Gillman, in Highgate.
In 1817 the public Biographia Literaria, philosophical work focuses on the discussion of issues Kant, Fichte and Schelling, the poetry of Wordsworth. In 1825, Aids to Reflection in the philosophical treatise argues the distinction between Understanding [understanding] and Reason [reason]. The first is the faculty by which man reflects and generalizes relying on the impressions of the senses that belong to the sphere of the natural world and the second is the power that predetermines the experience and instead belongs to the realm of the spiritual world. As a result, while the first man comes prudence [Prudence] the second, more precisely by Reason and Conscience, he is morality. The tendency to be an interpreter and speaker of instances of the German school philosophy and, more generally, the need for humans to return to a more spiritual view of life emerges from the collection of aphorisms and reflections various Poetae Soul, published in 1895 based on notes from his nephew EH Coleridge. The letters of religious inspiration Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit will come posthumously in 1840 on the interest of the child.
by: English Romantic poet, Mondadori
aphorisms COLERIDGE
Swans sing before they die, it would not be a bad deal if some people die before singing.
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he can stand on the shoulders of giant.
No man was ever a great poet, without being at the same time a great philosopher.
defects of the great authors are generally not carried to excess that their greatness.
Water, water everywhere. And not a drop to drink.
Nothing pleased with continuity, which does not contain within itself the reason why it should be so and not otherwise.
The fantasy is no more that one aspect of memory unbound by time and space.
critics are usually people who wanted to be poets, historians, biographers, have tested their talent, and have had no success.
Experience tells us that the first defense of the weak-minded and recriminations.
The devil's favorite sin is pride that apes humility.
The sincerity is not to say, but the intention of communicating the truth.
A man who does not have that top is like a Cyclops whose single eye is located behind the head.
who boasts of having won a multitude of friends he never had one.
The principle of Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
art, painting, sculpture, architecture and music, the mediation and reconciliation of man and nature. It is the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions in all that is the object of his contemplation.
There are three classes in which all women over seventy have always been divided: the dear old lady, the old, the old witch.
Only the wise possess ideas. Most of humanity will be held.
I saw a great show intolerance to defend tolerance.
The best doctor is the one with more skills can inspire hope.
What man wants is a woman, what women want is rarely anything other than human desire.
inimitable grace What have children before they learn to dance!
The poet must have the ear of a wild Arab listening to the silence of the desert, the eye of an Indian as he follows in the footsteps of the enemy on the leaves in the forest trails, and the feel of a blind man touches the face of a beloved child.
IN LIBRARY
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems. Among the poems 'Kubla Khan', 'The Dungeon', 'Epigram on Kepler' and twenty other poems. Original text in front. Mondadori Editore.
Lyrical Ballads, introduced by an essay by Thomas Eliot. Original text in front. Mondadori Editore.
SURFING IN INTERNET
The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
Poetry, political thought, reflections on science, theology, psychology eclectic English artist
Project: Marjorie A. Tiefert, University of Virginia (United States)
Selected Poetry and Prose of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thirty-two poems and prose poems
Project: University of Toronto (Canada)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
"I verses of the Ancient Mariner "on line
Project: University of Virginia (United States)
ST Coleridge: an overview
the historical, literary relations, social policy at the time of the artist
Project: George P. Landow (UK), Professor of Inglese and Digital Culture and Dean of the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore
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