audio是什么Samuel Taylor Coleridge 简介

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1. His Life & Literary Career

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), poet & critic, was born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, the
son of a clergy man. He received education at Cambridge but left without a degree. Inspired by the
radical
thinkers
with
their
idealism,
Coleridge
joined
Robert
Southey
in
a
utopian
plan
of
establishing an ideal democratic community in America, named
1797, Coleridge met & began his long friendship with William Wordsworth. The following year,
they
published
a
joint
volume
of
poetry,
Lyrical
Ballads,
which
become
a
landmark
in
English
poetry. Coleridge's poem,
years 1797 &1798 were among the most fruitful of Coleridge's life. In addition to
Mariner,
he
wrote

Kubla
Khan,
began
writing

Christabel,
&
composed

Lime-Tree
Bower My Prison,

In
1798,
he
traveled
with
the
Wordsworths
to
Germany.
In
1810,
Coleridge
quarreled
seriously
with Wordsworth. Although they reconciled with each other later on, their friendship had never
reached
its
former
intimacy.
In
1813,
his
tragic
drama
Remorse
received
popular
welcome.
In
1816,
he
wrote
his
major
prose
work,
Biographia
Literaria
(1817),
a
series
of
autobiographical
notes & dissertations on many subjects, including some brilliantly perceptive literary criticism.
2. His Literary Outlook & Philosophy
2.1
His
actual
achievement
as
a
poet
can
be
divided
into
two
remarkably
diverse
groups:
the
demonic & the conversational. The demonic group includes his three masterpieces:
the
Ancient
Mariner,

&

Khan.
Mysticism
&
demonism
with
strong
imagination are the distinctive features of this group. Among the conversational group,
Midnight
2.2
Philosophically
&
critically,
Coleridge
opposed
the
limitedly
rationalistic
trends
of
the
18th-century thought. He courageously stemmed the tide of the prevailing doctrines derived from
Hume & Hartley, advocating a more spiritual & religious interpretation of life, based on what he
had
learnt
from
Kant
&
Schelling.
He
believed
that
art
is
the
only
permanent
revelation
of
the
nature
of
reality.
A
poet
should
realize
the
vague
intimations
derived
from
his
unconsciousness
without sacrificing the vitality of the inspiration.
3. His Major Works
3.1
law of hospitality, the mariner cruelly shot an albatross which flew to the ship through thick fog.
Then disaster fell onto the ship. The breeze died down; the ship stopped; the hot tropical sun shone
all day long. The other sailors died of thirst one after another, while the mariner alone was alive,
being
tortured
all
the
time
with
thirst
&
the
horror
of
death.
Only
when
the
mariner
finally
repented & blessed for the water snake did the spell break & the ship was then able to go back
home. The story moves on through a world of wonder, from mysterious preface to inevitable close.
Each incident stands out clear & vivid; each corresponding change in the soul of the mariner is
registered.
The
whole
experience
is
an
ordeal
of
oppressive
weariness.
From
the
poem,
we
can
infer that Coleridge believe the universe as the projection not of reasoned beliefs but of irrational
fears and guilty feelings.
3.2

uses
a
freer
version
of
the
ballad
form
to
create
an
atmosphere
of
the
Gothic
horror at once delicate & sinister. The tale is an old one of a serpent disguised as a beautiful lady