Poetry and Prose of Samuel Taylor Coleridge


On Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by J. Zimmerman

* Links. * Poetry. * Books.

Poetry

Selected Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
edited with an introduction by William Empson and David Pirie

Prose

Timeline

Also see more complete Timeline of English Romantic Poets.

1772
Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England.

1789
French Revolution.

1794
Samuel Taylor Coleridge leaves Cambridge University without a degree; meets Robert Southey.

1795
Samuel Taylor Coleridge lectures on religion and politics.
First (though brief) meeting of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge marries Sarah Fricker.

1798
Lyrical Ballads co-authored by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes "Ancient Mariner" (in Lyrical Ballads), "Christabel" (Part I), and possibly "Kubla Khan".
(To 1799) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge each in Germany.

1799
First tour of the English Lake District by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge together.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge meets Sara Hutchinson.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes "Dejection: an Ode".

1803
Scottish tour by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth.
(To 1815) War between England and France.

1804
Samuel Taylor Coleridge goes to Malta as Acting Public Secretary till 1806.

1808
Samuel Taylor Coleridge lectures on literature at the Royal Institution.

1810
October: rupture between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

1816
"Christabel" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge published.

1817
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.

1834
Publication of third edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poetical Works.

Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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