Samuel Taylor Coleridge on poetry - from a series of quotations and excerpts from master poets, reflecting upon the poetic craft.

Coleridge was one of England's three Lake District poets, and the writer of Kubla Khan. He dreamt up idyllic scenery for his poems, although his own life was anything but idyllic.

Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" uses images from nature to describe the intense pleasure found in the sensations of a sexual experience, through the metaphor of a palace, comparing this pleasure also to the joy of experiencing great creative inspiration.

For many romantic writers, imagination is creation. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats shared romantic concepts of imagination, which they creatively expressed through their writing and poems.

The contextual factors and use of water in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth's Prelude

A look at two poems by Coleridge that define what entials the highest quality of mythological and supernatural elements in romantic poetry. These two poems have set the groundwork for further supernatural poetry and have remains unsurpassed throughout time.

analysis of the meditations present in the poem "Lime Tree Bower my Prison" by Samuel Coleridge.

Wondering what the differences are between the major Romantic poets? Byron, Keats, Shelley and Coleridge had widely different views, which are explained in this article.

Both Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes" and Coleridge's "Christabel" use gothic elements to enhance the ominous mood set forth by both authors, but the similarity between them ends at the point where both Keats and Coleridge engage these elements for their specific purposes.

On the cusp of the nineteenth century, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published The Lyrical Ballads, a compilation of their experimental poetry.

Opium is a drug that has existed since the dawn of time. It was opium that gently nudged Samuel Taylor Coleridge and helped him to conjure up Kubla Khan, and many other artists are deeply in its debt.

Find out how to turn something in that doesn't sound completely dorky when the assignment is to write an analysis of Romantic poetry.

Coleridge's experience with conversation poetry drives the "Eolian Harp." His fantastic approach to romanticism is evident through the important truths found in the poem. Romantics believed in being visionary which Coleridge portrays in poem.

Coleridge famously sought to achieve unity in life and art. Ironically, his most famous poem fails to achieve unity.

A research paper that considers the possibilty that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lesbian vampire poem Christabel might actually be a veiled confession of homosexual love between Coleridge and Wordsworth.

John Keats, aside from being a ground-breaking poet, helped to reinvent the concept of imagination.

Emma Lee has just finished writing a novel and one of her short stories, "First and Last and Always", is appearing in Extended Play, an anthology of music-inspired stories published by Elastic Press (London).

The top ten songs written and performed by Ben Folds and his earlier group Ben Folds Five, as chosen by the author and justified.

Comparison of the writing style's of two of England's most popular authors.

An essay on the significance of bird imagery in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Sky-Lark, and Ode to a Nightingale.

This paper researches the multiple areas of influence and accomplishments of William Blake.

...what happens when someone crosses the line into the reality of her wildest dreams? Picture if you will, a woman who wants only to live life to the fullest, who finally finds herself stepping smartly into...the Eventide Zone.

Ruminations on the romantic ideals expressed in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitary Walker.

In Plato's final hours, he dictated a philosophy of the soul and reality to his friends and pupils. This philosophy explained the world of forms and the world of particulars. I will show examples of forms and particulars in classic occult literature.

Five quick writing prompts for people who have writer's block or who just like to practice their writing abilities by doing writing exercises.

The National Capitol at Washington D.C. is probably the most thoroughly haunted building in the world.

In the beginning of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner readers are presented with an introductory statement regarding the metaphysical world.

Order and dis-order are very important literature elements.

An author may use this notion of optimism against pessimism to teach a moral lesson or to show a transformation of a character whether it be from an optimistic perspective to a pessimistic one or vice versa.

The stated moral at the end of Rime of the Ancient Mariner is too facile in light of all that has come before to be taken at face value.