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Coleridge : darker reflections, 1804-1834

Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Biography : English : 1st Pantheon edView all editions and formats
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A biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the 19th century British poet who wrote The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. The book examines his neuralgia, which turned him into an opium addict, and the influence this had on his writing. It follows his career in the civil service, his failed marriages and a trip to Germany where he came under the influence of German idealism, becoming its principal conduit in England.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Holmes, Richard, 1945-
Coleridge.
New York : Pantheon Books, 1999
(OCoLC)680623012
Named Person: Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Holmes
ISBN: 0679438475 9780679438472 0375705406 9780375705403
OCLC Number: 39556499
Notes: Originally published: London : HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.
Reference notes (p. 569-589).
Description: 622 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents: V. 1. Early visions --
v. 2. Darker reflections.
Responsibility: Richard Holmes.
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A biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the 19th century British poet who wrote The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. The book examines his neuralgia, which turned him into an opium addict, and the influence this had on his writing. It follows his career in the civil service, his failed marriages and a trip to Germany where he came under the influence of German idealism, becoming its principal conduit in England.

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