Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772, in Devonshire, England. His father was Reverend John Coleridge. His mother’s name is Anne Bowden. Coleridge was the youngest of four of his father’s children. He attended his father’s school; his father was vicar of a parish and master of a grammar school. When Coleridge was nine-years old Reverend John Coleridge died, in 1781. Coleridge moved away and began to attend Christ’s Hospital School in London. Coleridge finish the rest of his grade school days at Christ’s Hospital School. His father always wanted him to be a clergyman, so when Coleridge went to Jesus College, the University of Cambridge in 1971, he focused on a future in the Church of England.
Coleridge attended Jesus College, Cambridge from 1791 until 1794. When he was attending Jesus College he continued to study writing and poetry (1-1). In 1792 he won the Browne Gold Metal for an ode that he wrote on the slave trade. In 1794, Coleridge returned back to Cambridge in what turned out to be his final year at the university . He also made a friend names Robert Southey striking an instant friendship. They shared their philosophical ideas together (1-2). They constructed a vision of pantisocracy which meant equal government by all. Coleridge and Southey began to dream of a Utopian community.
In April 1795 he married Sara Fricker, the sister of Southey’s fiancé. In 1796 , the couple had their first child, a son named Hartely, even though Sara was still engaged to another man. Sara and Coleridge got married in Bristol, on October 4, 1795. Coleridge’s first marriage was not good, he was very unhappy. Coleridge spent most of his time away from his wife. He eventually separated from Sara. From 1797 to 1798 he lived near W...
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...ty six through fifty, this would be visible to everyone who heard the song , and the audien would be so astounded by the sheer wonder of it all they’d be downright terrified by it.
“Metric Feet”
In the first stanza , Coleridge explains each of the most common metrical feet. He is referring to his son and the steps he take in life. In the second stanza Coleridge tells his son Dewert everything he needs to know to become a famous poet.
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Charles attended Brentwood School in Essex which is father was headmaster of but in 1894 Charles changed schools to Clifton College before winning a scholarship to Hertford College in Oxford in 1898.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was born on February 25th, 1746 at Charleston, the eldest son of a politically prominent planter and a remarkable mother who introduced and promoted indigo culture in South Carolina. 7 years later, he accompanied his father, who had been appointed colonial agent for South Carolina, to England. As a result, the young Charles enjoyed a European education. Pinckney received tutoring in London, attended several preparatory schools, and went on to Christ Church College, Oxford, where he heard the lectures of the legal authority Sir William Blackstone and graduated in 1764. Pinckney next pursued legal training at London's.
First of alll, the poem is divided into nine stanzas, where each one has four lines. In addition to that, one can spot a few enjambements for instance (l.9-10). This stylistic device has the function to support the flow of the poem. Furthermore, it is crucial to take a look at the choice of words, when analysing the language.
Born in Groton, Conn., Samuel Seabury was the son of the Reverend Samuel Seabury Sr. His Father was a pioneer of New England Anglicanism who followed the example of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Jr.,broke away from the Congregationalists and pursued Anglican ordination. He graduated from Yale in 1744 and received his B.A in 1748. He married Abigail Mumford and went abroad in 1784 to obtain consecration as an Anglican Priest. On December 23, 1753, Samuel Seabury was ordained a deacon and two days later a priest of the Anglican Church. He was licensed by the church to preach in New Jersey. He preached in various places, but none suited his fancy. A preacher in Westchester was charged with drunkenness and sexual assault, which opened up the preaching position. Samuel filled the position and preached in an uneventful ministry. He also ran a school in Westchester.
Samuel Bradstreet was born in October of 1738. He was an Irish Politician, however he was also a judge. Samuel soon got married to Ellen Bradstreet in 1773, she was the daughter of his uncle. Samuel went to Trinity College, and to Middle Temple in 1758. He had a nickname “Slippery Sam,” also known as the “second son.” Shortly after his first marriage fell apart he remarried to Elizabeth
Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in London, England. He was the son of Captain John Byron and Catherine Gordon (Magill 312). His father had a daughter from a previous marriage, named Augusta. Byron was born with a clubbed right foot, which gave him a limp every time he walked for the rest of his life. His father was greedy and sought out money from all of his wives, so in 1789 Byron moved with his mother to Aberdeen. He grew up with a rough childhood, being abused by his mother often. However, he found help when he began reading the Bible and developed a love for history. This eventually led to his ideas for writing and his journeys across the globe (“Lord”).
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Kubla Khan.” Literature: A Pocket Anthology. Ed. R. S. Gwynn. New York: Addison-Wesley. 2002.
Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts. He died October 2, 1803 of Parkinsons disease. His father’s name was also Samuel along with his son. He had 12 other siblings in his family. His son served as a doctor during the Independence. His daughter, Hannah, wasn’t spoken of much. Years later, Samuel Adams 2nd cousin, John Adams, became president of the United States in 1797! He was born into a rich heritage of family where they could just about pay for anything he needed to be successful in life. He ranked 5 out of 22 students in his graduating year of Harvard College for becoming a politician. He received his Masters degree at a top notch school and had a lot of opportunities. Samuel’s great educational ways prepared him for a very active life ahead of him.
Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts and had passed away October 2, 1803. According to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, he worked as a “Tax-collector; Elected to Massachusetts Assembly, 1765; Delegate to the First Continental Congress, 1774; Signed Declaration of Independence, 1776; Member of Massachusetts State constitutional convention, 1781; Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Mass., 1789; Elected Governor of Massachusetts, 1794-’97.” Samuels father, Samuel Deacon Adams was a political leader, a committed Puritan, and a wealthy merchant.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on April 27, 1791 in Charleston, Massachusetts. He was born into a wealthy family with two younger brothers named Sidney and Richard. His father, Jedidiah Morse was a minister, writer, geographer and a congregational clergyman. His mother was Elizabeth Ann Breese. When Samuel got older, he married a woman named Lucrece. Together they had three children, Susan (the oldest), Charles (the middle child), and Finley (the youngest) who was named after Samuel. Soon after having Finley, Lucrece died and Samuel later was remarried to one of his cousins. She was only twenty-six years old but he married her because she was deaf and dumb so he felt she could be dependent on him. Morse's family grew with several more children. When Samuel was eight years old, he attended Phillip's Academy in Andover, Massachusetts where his father was a trustee. Samuel was an unsteady student that was always getting in trouble for drawing and not paying attention. In 1805 he entered Yale College and graduated in 1810. Soon after, he convinced his parents to send him to London to study painting. He lived in England from 1811 to 1815 getting into Royal Academy in 1813. Samuel first began working after he graduated from Yale College as a clerk for Boston book publisher. Another job he had was painting which he studied in the U.S. and in Europe. He opened a studio to paint portraits, but was not very successful. People would go to his studio to look at his artwork but not to buy it. Soon after, he went from house to house asking people if they wanted their portrait painted for $15 but he was not successful in this either. Later in his life, he taught art at the University of the City of New York. He also ran for mayor of New York several times but always lost.
To fully understand this poem, the reader would find it helpful to know what led Coleridge to write it. Coleridge grew up with English essayist Charles Lamb in school and the two were close friends (Merriman.) In their later years, however, the two rarely saw each other as Coleridge lived in the country side and Lamb lived in the city, where he cared for his mentally ill sister (Merriman.) On one of the rare days Lamb went to visit him, Coleridge planed to go on a walk through the scenic area surrounding his house with Lamb and some other friends, but before they left, Coleridge’s wife accidentally dropped boiling milk on his foot and he was unable to participate in the walk (Benzon.) While the others gallivanted across the countryside, Coleridge sat in his garden and wrote this poem.
Wordsworth is raised in a simple country side and he views his childhood as a time when his relationship with nature was at its greatest; he revisits his childhood memories to relieve his feelings and encourage his imagination. Even if he grew up within nature, he didn’t really appreciate it until he became an adult. He is pantheistic; belief that nature is divine, a God. Since he has religious aspect of nature, he believes that nature is everything and that it makes a person better. His tone in the poem is reproachful and more intense. His poem purpose is to tell the readers and his loved ones that if he feels some kind of way about nature, then we should have the same feeling toward it as well. On the other side, Coleridge is raised in rural city such as London and expresses his idea that, as a child, he felt connected to nature when looking above the sky and seeing the stars. Unlike Wordsworth who felt freedom of mind, Coleridge felt locked up in the city. Since he did not have any experience with nature, he did not get the opportunity to appreciate nature until he became an adult. In Coleridge’s poem “Frost at Midnight,” readers see how the pain of alienation from nature has toughened Coleridge’s hope that his child enjoy a peaceful nature. Instead of looking at the connection between childhood and nature as
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Magnuson, Paul. "The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & The Wordsworths in 1802." Criticism 4(2001):451. eLibrary. Web. 11 Mar. 2014.
Another aspect of the duke’s character addressed in the poem is his condescending attitude. Two times in the poem the duke needlessly told the names of the artists who created the masterpieces that he owned (lines 3 & 56). He felt superiority over the emissary he was speaking to by dropping these names. The duke addressed the emissary as a “never read stranger'; (line 6). Not only was it patronizing for the duke to call him a stranger, but he called him unintelligent too.