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Coleridge: Kubla Khan, Notes

ChristabelFrance: an OdeKubla Khan Kubla Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, was a Mongolian conqueror who stretched his empire from European Russia to the eastern shores of China in the…

Coleridge: France: an Ode, Notes

Kubla KhanDejection: an OdeFrance: an Ode When Coleridge republished this poem in the Post in 1802 he prefixed to it the following Argument First Stanza. An invocation to those objects…

Coleridge: Dejection: an Ode, Notes

France: an OdeYouth and AgeDejection: an Ode 55, 1 of motto-*yestreen*. Abbreviation of "yester-even," yesterday evening. 58, 82-*But now afflictions*, etc. In March 1801 Coleridge…

Coleridge: Youth and Age, Notes

Dejection: an OdeWork without HopeYouth and Age 60, 12-*trim skiffs*, etc. Fulton had invented the steamboat in 1807. The first regular steamboat in British waters was built in 1812. 61…

Coleridge: Work without Hope

Youth and AgeWork without Hope 62, 5-*the sole unbusy thing*. Cf. George Herbert's "Employment:" "All things are busie; onely I Neither bring hony with the bees, Nor flowers…

Coleridge: Notes

EpitaphNotesThe Ancient MarinerChristabelKubla KhanFrance: an OdeDejection: an OdeYouth and AgeWork without Hope

Coleridge: The Beginnings

At Nether StoweyThe Beginnings Coleridge lived in what may safely be called the most momentous period of modern history. In the year following his birth Warren Hastings was appointed first…

Coleridge: The Rest of the Story

At Nether StoweyThe Rest of the Story Coleridge lived for thirty-six years after he left Stowey for Germany in 1798. His fame as a poet grew as the world became acquainted with and learned…

Coleridge: "The Ancient Mariner"

"Christabel" and "Kubla Khan""The Ancient Mariner" "The Ancient Mariner" was first printed in the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads," 1798, again with considerable changes in the second…