![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was fascinated by the multiplicity of things and saw himself as a library cormorant, greedy for knowledge Charles Lamb called him 'an archangel slightly damaged'. With his marriage failing and his friendship with Wordsworth at a sorry end, Coleridge acquired the reputation of a brilliant speaker whose poetic career had lost its way. It was with William, on long walks in Somerset, that 'The Rime' was born, along with 'Kubla Khan', the extremity of their visions indebted to Coleridge's addiction to opium. He married Sara Fricker in Bristol in 1795, and became close friends with William and Dorothy Wordsworth. After leaving Cambridge he and Robert Southey tried to set up a utopian settlement in Pennsylvania, but this faltered. ![]() As a young man at Jesus College, Cambridge, he won a prize for his poem protesting the slave trade, and briefly absconded to enlist in the dragoons under the alias, Silas Tomkyn Comberbache he spent most of his time falling off his horse and was officially discharged for being 'insane'. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born 21 October 1772, at Ottery St Mary, Devon, where his father was the vicar. ![]()
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