U8 L5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 1

To whom was Coleridge the son of?

Answer 1

clergyman

Question 2

Was Coleridge the youngest or eldest of 14 children?

Answer 2

youngest

Question 3

What College Coleridge attend?

Answer 3

Jesus College

Question 4

Did Coleridge complete his education in Jesus College? What did he join in 1794?

Answer 4

no, cavalry

Question 5

When did Coleridge meet Wordsworth?

Answer 5

1795

Question 6

What aspects of Coleridge enhanced Wordsworth’s creativity?

Answer 6

imagination and admiration of Wordsworth

Question 7

What aspects of Wordsworth inspired Coleridge to write his most appreciated poetry?

Answer 7

• poetry theories
• nature views
• self discipline

Question 8

In 1810, what caused Wordsworth and Coleridge’s friendship to end?

Answer 8

quarrel

Question 9

What addiction did Coleridge go through after the end of his friendship with Wordsworth?

Answer 9

drug addiction

Question 10

When did Coleridge die?

Answer 10

1834

Question 11

Is Coleridge’s poetry varied?

Answer 11

yes

Question 12

Coleridge’s best poetry were in what genres and forms?

Answer 12

• mystery and magic

- blank verse poems and traditional odes

Question 13

Wordsworth sought to take the ordinary and present them as what?

Answer 13

extraordinary

Question 14

Coleridge sought to take the extraordinary and illustrate what?

Answer 14

what an ordinary reaction would be

Question 15

How did Wordsworth and Coleridge differ in the way they worked?

Answer 15

W- disciplined, meditated on subject

C- can’t complete, many unfinished, writes in single sittings, little planning

Question 16

What are the ‘conversational poems’ Coleridge often wrote?

Answer 16

• combination of descriptive and meditative verse
• speaker reflects on past
• desc specific/precise

Question 17

Compared to the conversational poems Coleridge wrote, what were Wordsworth’s descriptions like?

Answer 17

general

Question 18

Coleridge presented his own theories of poetry in what work of literary criticism?

Answer 18

Biographia Literaria

Question 19

In Biographia Literaria, poems should require the total activity of what?

Answer 19

all mind functions

• sensation
• intellect
• emotion

Question 20

Both Wordsworth and Coleridge expected the poem to () rather than to analyze

Answer 20

synthesize/assimilate

Question 21

Was Coleridge a prolific poet?

Answer 21

no

Question 22

What are 3 poems Coleridge is famous for?

Answer 22

• Kubla Khan
• Christabel
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Question 23

Both Christabel and Rime of Ancient Mariner are written in what form, and what does it deal with?

Answer 23

• ballad

- supernatural

Question 24

What is Christabel and what is it about?

Answer 24

• medieval tale of witchcraft

- good bs evil personified as Christabel vs Geraldine

Question 25

What is Rime of Ancient Mariner about?

Answer 25

supernatural punishment of mariner who killed albatross

Question 26

Who is Kubla Khan?

Answer 26

founder of Mongol dynasty of HCina

Question 27

What did Coleridge read that inspired Kubla Khan?

Answer 27

Samuel Purcha's Pilgrimage

Question 28

What is an epitaph?

Answer 28

inscription on the tomb of dead person