Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Punishment Penance Atonement Paying your dues

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 5.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 5.

Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Ocean and sea Salt water Water Thirst Irony

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2.

The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Curvature of the earth Adventure Sailing Beginning of a journey

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 6.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 6.

Prose = words in their best order;-poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry and prose Poetry

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Table Talk

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "12 July 1827." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1835.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Fear

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 6.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 6.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry Philosophy Poets Philosophers

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Biographia Literaria

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria, edited by Niger Leask. Vol. 2, London: J. M. Dent, 1817, ch. 15.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Biographia Literaria." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 15.

Bygone images, and scenes of early life, have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown from the spice-islands of Youth and Hope-those twin realities of this phantom world!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

Memories Nostalgia

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Table Talk

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "10 July 1834." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1835.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

Poetry

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Table Talk

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "9 May 1830." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1835.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The good Beauty

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language

English

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "On the Principles of Genial Criticism Concerning the Fine Arts." Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. Bristol, Aug. and Sept. 1814.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 11, pt. 1: Shorter Works and Fragments, edited by Kathleen Coburn. Princeton University Press, 2019.

You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Happiness in marriage Marriage

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Table Talk

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Parental Control of Marriage - Marriage of Cousins - Difference of Character, June 10, 1824." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1852.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Summer Seasons

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1826 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Quoted in "Letter to Bernard Barton, May 16, 1826." Written by Charles Lamb. 16 May 1826.

In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The ineffable The moon Nature

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Anima Poetae

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Notebook entry. 14 Apr. 1805.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, edited by Lucy Newlyn. Cambridge University Press, 2002.