Samuel Taylor Coleridge Was One Of The Greatest Poets Of The Romantic Period.

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Term Paper Title	Samuel Taylor Coleridge Was One Of The Greatest Poets Of The Romantic Period.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the greatest poets of the Romantic period.
His life was a roller coaster of ups and downs, setting him apart from others.  This
roller coaster of events was greatly influenced by his fear of rejection, and an
addiction to opium he was never fully aware of.
     Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772, in Ottery St. Mary,
Devonshire.  He was the younges of fourteen children.  With elders always
surrounding him he quickly became very dependent upon others, with no one
dependent on him.  Coleridge was always admiring and looking up to others who
were self-sufficient, unlike himself.  His maturity and knowledge was
acknowledged at an early age.  He eventually grew to become “a character.”  He
was still constantly looking for approval from others.
     In grammar school, Coleridge surpassed all the other students.  Reading any
book he could get his hands on and often acting the scenes out.  The local grammar
school didn’t seem to be challenging enough.  After his father died, shortly after
Coleridge turned nine, he was moved to the great London school, Christ’s
Hospital.  All the while he was in school his passion for reading never died.
Always rising to the top of his classes.  He continued at Christ’s Hospital until he
entered into Cambridge, when he was twenty.  His feelings of self-dissatisfaction
     Close to the time he was leaving school and going to Cambridge was when
he wrote Biographia.  He didn’t have the money to buy books to distribute it, so he
wrote it out forty times to hand out.
     After his first year at Jesus College, Cambridge, is when he was first
prescribed opium, for a neurologic or rheumatic attack.  At that time, opium was
prescribed very commonly without the knowledge of its ability to become
addicting.
     As he spent more time at Cambridge and began reading more widely, his
acquaintances broadened.  He was still very bright and quick to begin a long
conversation.  Eventually Coleridge came to meet Robert Southey, a student at
Balliot.  Both were intrigued with each other.  From there they became good
friends whom began working on a government type project together.  Throughout
Southey, Coleridge met the Frickers, which included Sarah Fricker.  After
spending quite a bit of time with Sarah, the two became engaged.  After much
reluctance on Coleridge’s part, they were wed.  They were to reside in a cottage
near Bristol.
     In the beginning of his marriage he was happy, but eventually that
happiness would...

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