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Monday, June 12, 2006

Advice!

"Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, critic and philosopher. He was born on 21st October 1772 in the Devon village of Ottery St, Mary and died on July 25, 1834. He founded with his friend William Wordsworth and others the Romantic School in England. From his works: Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel, Kubla Khan and his poetry in some other collections like the Selected Poems of S.T. Coleridge by James Reeves. His father was vicar and master of the grammar school.

Coleridge was sent as a boarder to Christ's Hospital in London, when his father died. He was nine years old then. He remained there from 1782 to 1791. From October 1971 until December 1794 Coleridge was at Jesus College, Cambridge. Early in 1795 Coleridge was back in Bristol where he began a series of lectures on political subjects to collect funds for the Pantisocratic venture. He established an association with his friend Wordsworth in March 1797. During 1799 to 1800, Coleridge wrote political articles for the Morning Post.

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