Historical documents. What clues can you gather about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the time, place, players, and culture?
Biographia Literaria
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A free e-book of this classic text.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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From the 1798 Lyrical Ballads.
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
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A poem to Charles Lamb.
Kubla Khan
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Or, a vision of a dream. A fragment.
Christabel
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The poem Wordsworth booted from Lyrical Ballads.
The Eolian Harp
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The 1795 poem.
Letter to Joseph Cottle
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1814 letter discussing his opium addiction.
Letter to William Southeby
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1828 letter giving instructions for his autopsy.
Letter to Charles Tulk
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1818 letter on William Blake's poetry.