Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 

Introduction : 

 "Love is flower like ; friendship is like a sheltering tree "

                                      - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

In the wonderful " Ode To Detection " from which the above fragment is taken , we have a single strong impression of Coleridge's whole life - a sad , broken , tragic lief , in marked contrast with the peaceful existence of his friend Wordsworth . His poetry has a cheering message , full of beauty and hope and inspiration . Such is Coleridge , a man of grief who makes the world glad . 

Life : 

In 1772 there lived in Ottery st. Mary , Devonshire , a queer little man , the Rev . John Coleridge , vicar of the Parish church and master of the local grammar school . 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge , the youngest of thirteen children . He was an extra precocious child , who could read at the age of threes and before he was five , he had read the Bible and the Arabian Nights . From three to six and from six to nine he was attending his father's school and in that period his father died . 

At ten he sent to London for school professor he entered Cambridge as a charity student . He left the university without taking the degree . After that he has joined Southey and they were working together for the regeneration of the human society . Then he studied in Germany ; worked as a private secretary later he went to Rome for study and then he started " The Friend " a paper devoted to turn and liberty. 

In early life he suffered from neuralgia and to ease the pin began to use opiates , the result was very bad he became a slave to the drug habit ; after fifteen years of pain and struggle and despair , he gave up and put himself in the charge of physician and Carlyle who visited him at this time called him " a king of men " he later gave his contribution of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 . 

He died in 1834 , and was buried in Highgate Church . 

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