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Plot Summary of Coleridge: Early Visions
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, journalist, philosopher, plagiarist and opium addict. He is probably most famous as the author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
He was born into a middle class family in southern England. His exceptional intelligence and poetic sensibility came to the fore in his teens, but he did not achieve real fame until the publication of some of his work jointly with William Wordsworth.
Coleridge, Wordsworth and the circle of friends who became known as the Lake Poets, were notable for their love of nature and their desire to express themselves in a modern straightforward way.
As Coleridge became depressed by his difficult marriage and increasingly dependent on opium, hir relationship with the Wordworths fell apart."

Miranda Smith, Resident Scholar



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Plot
job/profession: - writer
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Kind of living: - general poverty story
Period of greatest activity? - 1700's

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - writer
Age: - 20's-30's
Biography of famous person? Yes
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - British
How sensitive is this person? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Genius (really!)
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 ()
Europe Yes
Century: - 18th century

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful
Is book humorous? Yes
If humorous, kind of humor - eccentric personalities
Writer's slant towards subject: - favorable
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
Pictures/Illustrations? - Some in color 1-5
How much dialogue in bio? - little dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices? Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 26-50% of book
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