Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devonshire, on 1772. He was the youngest child of the 14 that reverend John Coleridge had. Coleridge had health problems since he was very young and he avoided playing with other children, for reading imaginative literature. He went to Cambridge University, but he left it without a degree. In 1786, he published his first poems and as a relief for a sever neurologia, he began taking opium. He fell in love with Sarah Hutchinson, sister of Mary Hutchinson. He accomanied Wordsworth and Dorothy in their tours of the world. He tried to regain his health living in Italy and Rome. He came back to England completly addicted to narcotics. His relation with his family and friends, especially Wordsworth, were too good because the other cricised its habits. Coleridge was a highly appreciated scholar by his friends.
For instance, Wordsworth caracterised him as "the only wonderful man i ever met". He didn't succed to finish his works, except "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". No other poet was so well appreciated for such verses. He even is the main poet in English Poetry. He is to be noted for his religious,politic literary contributions,mainly in critical contribution. He proved to be the deepest analist of the romantic age. The volume, Lyrical Ballads, has been called Coleridge's greatest work.
Apart from his cooperation with Wordsworth, he also had a few more creation on his own.