Coleridge AO3

Question 1

How did Coleridge get addicted to opium?

Answer 1

He was physically unhealthy, which may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these conditions with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.

Question 2

When did Coleridge meet Wordsworth?

Answer 2

1795

Question 3

When did Coleridge and Wordsworth’s friendship fall apart?

Answer 3

1810

Question 4

After their relationship fell apart what happened to Coleridge?

Answer 4

He lived on the verge of suicide until he experienced a physical and spiritual crisis at Greyhound Inn, Bath, and submitted himself to a series of medical regimes to combat his opiod addiction

Question 5

Coleridge identified 3 types of imagination

Answer 5

1) Fancy
2) Primary
3) Secondary

Question 6

Define fancy

Answer 6

The mechanical ability the poet has to use devices, like metaphors, in poetry….

Question 7

Define primary imagination

Answer 7

Human individual power to produces images. The power to give chaos a certain order.

Question 8

Define secondary imagination

Answer 8

Poetic faculty, which not only gives shape and order to a given world, but builds new worlds

Question 9

Coleridge was an…

Answer 9

abolitionist