Too young to die: his great simplicity, his happy courage in an alien world, his gentleness, made all that knew him love him. The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic Drama,act 1 by Coleridge, acts 2 and 3 by Robert Southey (Cambridge: Printed by Benjamin Flower for W. H. Lunn and J. & J. Merrill, sold by J. March, Norwich, 1794). Lawrence Hanson, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Early Years(London: Allen & Unwin, 1938; New York: Oxford University Press, 1939). LongfellowChorus (18 September 2015). "Samuel Coleridge Taylor and His Music in America, 1900–1912". YouTube . Retrieved 16 February 2018. Coleridge made plans to establish a journal, The Watchman, to be printed every eight days to avoid a weekly newspaper tax. [18] The first issue of the short-lived journal was published in March 1796. It had ceased publication by May of that year. [19]

The compelling imagery of “Kubla Khan” might be regarded as preparation for “ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” conceived soon after on a walk to the port of Watchet on the Bristol Channel in the company of Wordsworth and his sister. Some time before, John Cruikshank, a local acquaintance of Coleridge’s, had related a dream about a skeleton ship manned by spectral sailors. This became the germ of a momentous project in which Wordsworth acted as collaborator. The plot was hatched on the walk, according to Wordsworth’s own later recollections, and it was he who conceived of the tale of crime and punishment which Coleridge would treat, in Christian terms, as a story of transgression, penitence, and atonement. Wordsworth also claimed to have suggested that the Old Navigator, as Coleridge initially called him, kill an albatross and be set upon by the “tutelary spirits” of Cape Horn, where the deed is done. He contributed some few lines of verse to the poem in addition.Goodson, Verbal Imagination: Coleridge and the Language of Modern Criticism(New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). Coleridge-Taylor was 37 when he died of pneumonia. His death is often attributed to the stress of his financial situation. [16] He was buried in Bandon Hill Cemetery, Wallington, Surrey (today in the London Borough of Sutton). This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) London: final years and death [ edit ] Blue plaque, 7 Addison Bridge Place, West Kensington, London This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

He married a British woman, Jessie Walmisley, and both their children had musical careers. [2] Their son Hiawatha adapted his father's music for a variety of performances. Their daughter Avril Coleridge-Taylor became a composer-conductor. Coleridge affixed the note: "Hymettian Flowrets. Hymettus, a mountain near Athens, celebrated for its honey" on line 4, in editions 1797 and 1803.A third sister, Mary, had already married a third poet, Robert Lovell, and both became partners in Pantisocracy. Lovell also introduced Coleridge and Southey to their future patron Joseph Cottle, but died of a fever in April 1796. Coleridge was with him at his death.

Who Extracted a Passage from a poem without adding a word respecting the context, and then derided it as unitelligible.John T. Miller, Jr., Ideology and Enlightenment: The Political and Social Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge(New York & London: Garland, 1987).

In 1796 he also privately printed Sonnets from Various Authors, including sonnets by Lamb, Lloyd, Southey and himself as well as older poets such as William Lisle Bowles.The Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,2 volumes, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge (London: Heinemann, 1895; Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895). Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions,2 volumes (London: Rest Fenner, 1817; New York: Published by Kirk & Mercein, 1817).