The Hard Life of Samuel Coleridge :: Biography Biographies Essays

The Hard Life of Samuel Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772 in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire. He was the youngest of ten children and was often teased and bullied by the others. When he was 7 long time old, Coleridge ran away from home. He was found unharmed the next morning. This event has recurred, in a literary sense, in a large portion of his writings. some of his poems, sketches, and notebooks contained pictures and descriptions of his night spent outdoors. Although it was evident that Coleridge was a prodigy, he did not do well at a young age because he preoccupied himself in women, drugs, and alcohol. He turned to the army, but this too fell through and through for him because his family was furious and his brother had him released for reasons of insanity. He immediately brought him back to Cambridge. It was here that he met William Wordsworth (Ashton 29). In 1797, Coleridge published Poems which was well liked. This excited him becau se he thought that this would engender his road to success. One year later, Wordsworth and Coleridge had their famous Lyrical Ballads published. Coleridges The Ancient Mariner, opens the book. legion(predicate) people believe that the work the two men did together greatly contributed to the creation of the Romantic Period. It was chosen to open the book because of its powerful descriptions close to remorse. This, combined with the element of psychological obsession, may nurture had a cluster to do with his younger years. In several ways, Coleridges life experiences seem to have a lot to do with his poem, Frost at Midnight. However brilliant, Coleridge was not necessarily a happy man. In 1802 he wrote to Southey All my poetical genius is gone, and I have been fool enough to suffer deeply in my my mind, regretting the loss, which I attribute to my long and exceedingly severe metaphysical investigations, and these partly to ill-health, and partly to private afflicti ons... (Watson 3). He, like many, was going through a tough period in his life. His poem, Frost at Midnight, is an excellent sheath of his attempts to find hope in his life. He wrote this poem for his son, Hartley.