Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a prominent English Romantic poet born in 1772 in Devonshire. Some of his most famous poems include "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," published in 1798 in collaboration with William Wordsworth, and "Kubla Khan," published later that year. Coleridge was known for his intense imaginative power and mastery of language, as evidenced by passages from his poems describing supernatural scenes at sea and the stately pleasure-dome built by Kubla Khan. The document provides an overview of Coleridge's background and career as a poet of the Lake School as well as summaries and excerpts of several of his major works.

1. Topic: Coleridge as a poet.
• Name: Sonal Baraiya.
• Class: M.A. Sem– 2.
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• Subject: Romantic Age.
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2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
 Born:
Devonshire, on
1772.
 ‘‘I never thought
as a child, never
had the language
of a child.’’
 He was a poet of
Lake School.

3. S. T. Coleridge’s poems.
 Coleridge’s poetical genius was brief
indeed, but the fruit of it was rich and
wonderful.
 His collections of poems such as:
1) ‘‘Destiny of Nations.’’
2) ‘‘Ode to the Departing Year.’’
3) ‘‘French Anode.’’

4. His Famous poems
 In collaboration with Wordsworth, he
produced the Lyrical Ballads
(1798).
 ‘‘The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.’’
 ‘‘Christabel (1797).’’
 ‘‘Kubla Khan (1798).’’

5. Coleridge as a poet
• Intense imaginative power, superbly
controlled.
• Witchery of language.
• Simplicity of diction.

6. ‘‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.’’
 In which he talked
about supernaturalism
by introducing readers
to a supernatural ship
and a crew of dead
men and the course of
Albatross; the amazing
scenes during the calm
and the storm; and the
return home.

7. His imaginative power
• Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

8. ‘‘Christabel (1797).’’
 Christabel is the
tale of a kind of
witch, who, by
taking the shape of
a lovely lady, wins
the confidence of
the heroine
Christabel.

9. ‘‘Kubla Khan 1798.’’
 The poem, beginning
with a description of the
stately pleasure-dome
built by Kubla Khan in
Xanadu, soon becomes a
dreamlike series of
dissolving views, each
expressed in the most
perfect imagery and
most magical of verbal
music, but it collapses in
mid-career.

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