Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biography and Background (62-63)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously collaborated with who on “The Vision of Sir Launfal?”

James Russell Lowell

Who made “The Vision of Sir Launfal?”

James Russell Lowell and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Which 3 British authors helped inaugurate Romanticisim?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordworth and William Blake

Which 4 german authors helped inaugurate Romanticism?

Ludwig Tieck, Novalis, and the brothers Friedrich Wilhelm Schlegel and August Wilhelm Schlegel

Who published “Lyrical Ballads?”

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When was “Lyrical Ballads”published?

1798

What is seen as the watershed of ROmanticism?

The publication of Lyrical Ballads

Why was Lyrical Ballads important to Romanticism?

It exemplified the core aesthetical and philosophical principles that defined Romanticism

What author summed up the core emphasis of Romanticism in a single line?

William Wordsworth

What work by Wordsworth sums up the core emphasis of Romanticism in a single line?

His Preface to “Lyrical Ballads”

How does Wordsworth sum up the core emphasis of Romanticism in a single line?

“The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings… recollected in tranquility”

Wordsworth summation of Romanticism in a single line is said to be ___________________ but still providing a good __________ of some of the key ideas

Oversimplified; distillation

Wjhat were ROmantic writers interested in?

Reflection and emotion, as opposed to disinterested reasoning

What do ROmantic writers view as the key practices for moral and social development?

Reflection and emotion as opposed to disinterested reasoning

What does valorizing someone mean?

To give them high value or merit

How did romantic writers treat the poet?

They valorized the individual “heroic” poet

What characteristic of a pet would be especially high-held in Romantic belief systems?

If they could wander—usually alone—into nature and experience transformative, transcendent, interactions with their thoughts, imaginative creations and own place in natural order

What did ROmantics believe personal emphasis would do to both the individual and the world?

Trnasform both

Who wrote that romantics believed “poetry was not an aspect of civilization but a challenge to it, not decorative, but subversive, a pleasure beyond politeness.”

Adam Nicolson

What did Adam Nicolson write about Romantic’s beliefs?

“poetry was not an aspect of civilization, but a challenge to it;not decorative, but subversive, a pleasure beyond politeness

What would the romantic movement go on to influence?

A second generation of writers

What writers were among the second generation which was influenced by Romanticism??

Lord Byron, John keats, Percy and mary Shelley, and Sir Walter Scott

The second generation of writers influenced by Romanticism would go on to do what?

Have an immense influence on the direction of English literature

Wordsworth is regarded as what?

The most influential poet of the first generation of Romantic writers

Wordsworth is to poems as Coleridge is to what?

Essays, literary criticism and lectures

Coleridge became famous in what genres?

Essays, literary criticisms, and lectures

What was Coleridge’s relationship with reading at a young age?>

(voracious) He loved reading and was eager to do so

Where was Coleridge educated?

Cambridge

How did Coleridge spend his young adulthood?

Writing radical political essays and journalism

What was Coleridge’s young adulthood influenced by?

The French Revelution

When did William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor COleridge meet?

1795

What happened to Coleridge and Wordsworth’s relationships after they met?

They became close friends and moved together to small rural towns

What rural towns did William Wordsworth and Coleridge move to together after meeting?

Nether Stowey and Alfoxton

Are Coleridge’s and Wordsworth’s homes still existing?

Yes and they are visitable

Where did Wordsworth and Coleridge work on Lyrical Ballads?

Small towns like Nether Stowey and Alfoxton

How as “Lyrical Ballads” received by audiences?

Huge popularity

When was Lyrical Ballads revised for a second edition?

1800

How can Coleridge’s personal life be described during its worse point?

Tumtultous

What was Coleridge’s financial situation during its tumultuous period?

He was constantly in need o fifnancialsupport from benefactors

What was Coleridge addicted to?

Opium and alcohol

How can Coleridge’s moods be during the tumtultuous period of his life be described?

Depressive, and worsening

Why did Coleridge fall out of favor with his friends and early readers?

He shifted toward conservative politics and religious orthodoxy

What did COleridge find success as later in life?

As a sort of elder statesmen

What was Coleridge known as later in life?

The “Sage of Highland”

Coleridge became known as the sage of what?

Highland

What was Coleridge’s nickname as the Sage of Highland a reference to?

His friends home where he lived and received distinguished visitors and admiring readers

When did Coleridge die?

1834

What did Coleridge leave behind after dying?

Aa considerable literary legacy

What has happened to Coleridge’s literary legacy after his death?

Its expanded

What has caused the expansion of Coleridge’s literary legacy after his death?

Scholars have collected volumes of unpublished works, informally collected lectures, conversations, and notebook entries