Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 --- 1834)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 --- 1834)
Born --- in a priest family
Family --- his father died when he was only 3.
Character --- lonely, but filled with dreams
Education --- Charity School of Christs Hospital
In Cambridge for 3 years without a degree
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Lake Poets
William Wordsworth
Samuel Coleridge
Robert Southey
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In 1794, it is important for Coleridge.
Robert Southey
Excited at France Revolution
Inspired by the idea of egalitarianism
Establish a new community
A utopian society in America, named it
Pantisocracy
Failed at last
conservative
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His health
Suffered acute pain in the head
Ease the pain
Took opium
A slave to the drug
Live in poverty
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His works
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
representative work
a long poem written in ballad form
the simple story
The theme ----- about sin and its expiation
The language ----- irresistible
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Kubla Khan
Collected in Lyrical Ballads
unfinished poem of 54 lines
He claimed that one day in his dream he composed
a poem of 200300 lines when he was taking a nap.
He was interrupted by an unexpected guest and
stopped at 54 lines.

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George Gordon Byron (1788--- 1824)
Born --- of noble blood on paternal and maternal
lines.
his father
her mother
a Scottish heiress
an aristocratic family
inherited the title of baron
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His life
He was born with a club foot and became
extreme sensitivity about his lameness.
In Cambridge, he piled up debts and aroused
alarm with bisexual love affairs.
In 1815, he married and had a daughter. But the
marriage was unhappy, and they separated next
year.
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In 1816, he left England because of the rumors,
and never returned.
He settled in Geneva with Shelley and his lover.
He sailed to Greece, but he was contracted a
fever from which he died.
Education -----
Harrow first, then Cambridge
In 1807 while a student at Cambridge, he showed
talent in verse writing
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His works
Hours of Idleness (1807)
first collection of poetry
received bad reviews
English Bards And Scotch Reviewers
answered his critics
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (1812)
became an adored character of London society
Don Juan (1818 -- 1823)
unfinished , his masterpiece
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 --- 1827)
Born --- on Aug 4, 1792, in an aristocratic family
Education --- attended Syno House Academy , Eton
In 1810, entered the Oxford University
Marriage --- eloped with the 16 year old girl
, then married, but unhappy, failed.
Then married Mary , and had a son.
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His works
The Necessity of Atheism (1811)
He was expelled from the college for publishing
it.
The Assassins (1814)
during the journey with Mary
To the West Wind (1820)
odes----- popular poems
To a Skylark (1820)
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John Keats (1795 --- 1821)
Born ----- on October 31, 1795 in London
Family ----- father a livery stable keeper
At 8 years old his father died, and his mother
died when he was 14.
Education ----- at Clarkes School in Enfield
His guardian forced him to leave school and
apprenticed him to a surgeon.
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He was the oldest of four children, who remained
deeply devoted to each other.
He spent three months in 1818 attending his
brother Tom, who was seriously ill with
tuberculosis, at last Tom died. In 1820 he began
to suffer from tuberculosis, and died at the age
of 25.
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His works
Lines in Imitation of Spenser (1814)
first poem
Poems (1817)
first book
Endymion (1821)
first long poem
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Autumn
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Charles Lamb (1775 --- 1834)
Born ----- in London , 1775
Education ---- at Christs Hospital, where he
formed a lifelong friendship with Coleridge
Illness ----- when he was 20 he suffered a period
of insanity.
His sister, Mary, had similar problems and in
1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness.
Marriage ----- never married
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Thomas de Quincey (1785 --- 1859)