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Coleridge and Cottage
Coleridge Cottage was, between 1797 and 1799, the home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in poetry ( along with William Wordsworth, who himself lived three miles away ).
Having served for many years as Moore's Coleridge Cottage Inn, the building was acquired for the nation in 1908, and the following year it was handed over to the National Trust.
The Coleridge Way is a footpath which follows the walks taken by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Porlock, starting from Coleridge Cottage at Nether Stowey, where he once lived.
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge also spent time at Dove Cottage and is said to have muttered stanzas from his poem " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner " whilst walking across the fells to Grasmere.
He also took part in the campaign to buy the Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey for the nation.

Coleridge and is
Allegiance is owed both to the Sovereign as a natural person and to the Sovereign in the political capacity ( Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 ( per Lord Coleridge CJ )).
" The effect is illustrated by Coleridge as:
Kubla Khan () is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816.
In September 1797, Coleridge lived in Stowey in the south west of England and spent much of his time walking through the nearby Quantock Hills with his fellow poet William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy ; ( His route today is memorialized as the " Coleridge Way ".
However, the exact date of the poem is uncertain because Coleridge normally dated his poems but did not date Kubla Khan.
It is possible that he merely edited the poem during those time periods, and there is little evidence to suggest that Coleridge lied about the opium-induced experience at Ash Farm.
Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".
The poem is different in style and form from other poems composed by Coleridge.
The rhythm of the poem, like its themes and images, is different from other poems Coleridge wrote during the time, and it is organised in a structure similar to 18th-century odes.
It is possible that Coleridge was displeased by the lack of unity in the poem and added a note about the structure to the Preface to explain his thoughts.
" The image of himself that Coleridge provides is of a dreamer who reads works of lore and not as an opium addict.
It is possible that the words of Purchas were merely remembered by Coleridge and that the depiction of immediately reading the work before falling asleep was to suggest that the subject came to him accidentally.
Only the poet of the poem feels that he can recover the vision, and the Preface, like a Coleridge poem that is quoted in it, The Picture, states that visions are unrecoverable.
When considering all of The Picture and not just the excerpt, Coleridge describes how inspiration is similar to a stream and that if an object is thrown into it the vision is interrupted.
The woman herself is similar to the way Coleridge describes Lewti in another poem he wrote around the same time Lewti.
She is also similar to the later subject of many of Coleridge's poems, Asra, based on Sara Hutchinson, whom Coleridge wanted but was not his wife and experienced opium induced dreams of being with her.
The Abyssinian maid is derived from many figures in Coleridge's life, including women who Coleridge admired in some way: Charlotte Brent, Catherine Clarkson, Mary Morgan, and Dorothy Wordsworth.
Although Asra / Hutchinson is similar to the way Coleridge talks about the Abyssinian maid, Hutchinson was someone he met after writing Kubla Khan.
Not all of the negative comments were public, as Charles Lamb, friend of Coleridge, expressed his fears of a negative response as he wrote: " Coleridge repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates and brings heaven and elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ; but there is an observation: ' never tell thy dreams ,' and I am almost afraid that Kubla Khan is an owl that won't bear daylight.

Coleridge and cottage
Literary figures associated with the town are Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( who spent some months living in a cottage in the town after his marriage to Sarah Fricker ), William Makepeace Thackeray ( a frequent guest of the Elton family at Clevedon Court ), and George Gissing ( The Odd Women is set in the town ).

Coleridge and Nether
In 1797 he contributed additional blank verse to the second edition, and met the Wordsworths, William and Dorothy, on his short summer holiday with Coleridge at Nether Stowey, thereby also striking up a lifelong friendship with William.
Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived in Nether Stowey in the Quantocks from 1797 to 1799.
* Coleridge Way, from Nether Stowey in the Quantocks across the Brendon Hills and the fringes of Exmoor National Park to the coast at Porlock.
Coleridge was living at Nether Stowey ( a village in the foothills of the Quantocks ).
The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived nearby at Nether Stowey ( between Bridgwater and Minehead ), was interrupted during composition of his poem Kubla Khan by " a person on business from Porlock ", and found afterward he could not remember what had come to him in a dream.
The river crossing could only be used a few hours per day at low tide and was used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the 1790s when he stayed at Nether Stowey, to travel to and from Bristol.

Coleridge and Stowey
Some time between 9 and 14 October 1797, when Coleridge says he had completed the tragedy, he left Stowey for Lynton.

Coleridge and .
I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.
He formulated no system of philosophy, and shows the influence of Plato, German mysticism, and Immanuel Kant as filtered through the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Work Without Hope ( 1825 ), also refers to the herb, likely referencing Milton's earlier work.
In the 19th century the term Psilanthropism, was applied by such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge who so called his own view that Jesus was the son of Joseph.
The famous literary opium addicts Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wilkie Collins also took it for its pleasurable effects.
* Coleridge, Nebraska, a village in the U. S.
Her reading matter included Tennyson, Wordsworth, Milton, Coleridge, Trollope, Thackeray and George Eliot.
* The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506-1552 Coleridge, Henry James, 1822-1893 London: Burns and Oates, ( 1872 )
* Willey, Basil, Nineteenth-Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold, London, Chatto & Windus, 1964, ISBN 0-14-021709-6.
These included the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and others prior to their disillusionment with the outbreak of the Reign of Terror.
The book Coleridge was reading before he fell asleep was Purchas, his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation to the Present, by the English clergyman and geographer Samuel Purchas, first written in 1613.
The text about Xanadu in Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which Coleridge admitted he did not remember exactly, was: " In Xandu did Cublai Can build a stately Pallace, encompassing sixteen miles of plaine ground with a wall, wherein are fertile Meddowes, pleasant Springs, delightfull streames, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure, which may be moved from place to place.
These were both times he was in the area, and, by 1799, Coleridge was able to read Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer, a work which also drew on Purchas's work.
The work was set aside until 1815 when Coleridge compiled manuscripts of his poems for a collection titled Sibylline Leaves.
The poem remained buried in obscurity until a 10 April 1816 meeting between Coleridge and George Gordon Byron, a younger poet, who persuaded Coleridge to publish Christabel and Kubla Khan as fragments.
The collection of poems was published 25 May 1816, and Coleridge included " A Fragment " as a subtitle to the 54 line version of the poem to defend against criticism of the poem's incomplete nature.
Printed with Kubla Khan was a preface that claimed an opium induced dream provided Coleridge the lines.
In the final work, Coleridge added the expanded subtitle " Or, A Vision in a Dream.

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