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Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \n•Birth & Education  \n•Born in Devonshire, England.  \n•Studied at the University of Cambridge.  \n•Philosopher, poet, and religious–political theorist.  \n•Association with Wordsworth  \n•Met William Wordsworth in 1795 .  \n•Close collaboration deeply influenced Coleridge’s poetic style.  \n•Shifted from elevated diction to a conversational tone.  \n•Began drawing inspiration from ordinary, everyday life.  \n•Lived near Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth in Somersetshire (1797–1798) .  \n•Early Publication  \n•Published first poetry collection Poems on Various Subjects (1796) .  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \n•Lyrical Ballads (1798)  \n• Co-published with Wordsworth.  \n• Marked the beginning of the British Romantic Movement.  \n• Division of poetic labor:  \n• Coleridge: Poems of the supernatural and romantic , aiming to create “poetic faith.”  \n• Wordsworth: Poems of common life and personal experience , treated imaginatively.  \n• Joint aim:  \n• To unite:  \n• Truth of nature (sympathy through realism)  \n• Novelty of imagination (fresh emotional impact)  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \n•Major Contribution  \n• Coleridge contributed “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”  \n• Wordsworth wrote the major portion of the collection.  \n• Later Life  \n• Traveled across Europe with Wordsworth after publication.  \n• Became a lecturer and frequent traveler.  \n• Struggled with opium addiction.  \n• In 1816 , moved in with physician James Gillman.  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \nBiographia Literaria (1817)  \nA blend of: Autobiography Literary criticism Philosophy and theology  \nOne of the most important Romantic critical texts.  \n•Disagreement with Wordsworth  \n• Coleridge admired Wordsworth’s poetry.  \n• Objected to the Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads.  \n• Criticized Wordsworth’s emphasis on “the language of ordinary life.”  \n• Felt it diverged from their original collaborative vision.  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n\" for DISCOUNT.  \n•Coleridge’s Theory of Poetry  \n• A poem must organically unite:  \n• Sound and meter  \n• Communication  \n• Pleasure  \n• Emotional effect  \n• Opposed artificial or mechanical addition of poetic elements.  \n• Key principle:  \n• “Nothing can permanently please, which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.”  \n• Describes the reader’s movement through a poem as:  \n• 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