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Secular or Eclectic : Romantic

19th Century

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Timeline (1772 - 1834)

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Original Language
English

What is Life?

Themes

Death

Light

Night

Pain and Wounding

Sexual Union

Recommended Books

	The Annotated Ancient Mariner , by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Edited by Martin Gardner
	Coleridge's Writings: On the Sublime, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Edited by David Vallins
	The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography, by Rosemary Ashton
	Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	The Poetry of Coleridge (Audio Book), by Ralph Richardson

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     Resembles Life what once was held of Light,
     Too ample in itself for human sight ?
An absolute Self--an element ungrounded--
All, that we see, all colours of all shade
     By encroach of darkness made ?--
Is very life by consciousness unbounded ?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death ?

1805

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