Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and as one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary, the son of a vicar. Af ...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary, the son of a vicar. After the death of his father, he was sent to Christ's Hospital, a boarding school in London. In later life, Coleridge idealised his father as a pious innocent, but his relationship with his mother was difficult. His childhood was characterised by attention-seeking, which has been linked with his dependent personality as an adult, and he was rarely allowed to return home during his schooldays. From 1791 until 1794 he attended Jesus College at the University of Cambridge, ...

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Opium is a narcotic analgesic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. or the synonym paeoniflorum). Opium - Harvesting opium. To harvest opium, the skin of the ripening pods is scored by a sharp blade. The slashes exude a white, milky latex, which dries to a sticky brown resin that is scraped off the pods as raw opium. Opium has powerful narcotic properties, and is used as a painkiller in extreme circumstances, such as in terminal stage ...

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Diomedea Thalassarche Phoebastria Phoebetria The albatrosses are seabirds in the family Diomedeidae, which is closely allied to the procellarids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic although fossil remains show they once occurred there too. Albatrosses are amongst the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses from the genus Diomedea ...

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The image of the poppy capsule was an attribute of deities, long before opium was extracted from its milky latex. At the Metropolitan Museum's Assyrian relief gallery, a winged deity in a bas-relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, dedicated in 879 BC, bears a bouquet of poppy capsules on long stems, described by the museum as "pomegranates". Hailed as the gift of the gods, Babylonians enjoyed opium, and even made cakes out of it. At this time in history, smoking opium had not been developed yet. Over the following centuries, opium use spread across the known world. In the 19th century, smoking opi ...

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For treatments of the vampire legend in fiction, see Vampire fiction. Vampires are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy), often having unnatural powers, heightened bodily functions, and/or the ability to physically transform. Some cultures have myths of non-human vampires, such as demons or animals like bats, dogs, and spiders. Vampires are often described as having a variety of additional powers and character traits, extremely variable in different traditions, and are a frequent subject ...

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Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. Cumbria is home to the Lake District National Park, considered one of the most beautiful areas of the United Kingdom. The area has provided inspiration for generations of British and foreign artists, writers and musicians. The highest point of the county (and of the whole of England) is Scafell Pike at 978m/3209ft. Parts of Hadrian's Wall can be found in the northernmost reaches of the county, in and around Carlisle. Cumbria - Boundaries ...

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892) was one of the most popular English poets of his time. Much of his verse was based on classical or mythological themes. Idylls of the King (1885) takes its subject from Arthurian romance. Later in his career, he attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success even in his lifetime. Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson - Early Life. Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire, a rector's son and one of 12 children. ...

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Vampire fiction covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The best known work in this genre is of course Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. It was not, however, the first. Myths and legends of blood-imbibing creatures capable of transmogrification predate the novel form. The immediate antecedent of Dracula is Sheridan le Fanu's classic of the genre, Carmilla. This in turn owes more than a little to John William Polidori's The Vampyre; this work was cont ...

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The Alph is supposedly an "underground river" of Esotericism in Europe, symbolising the secret knowledge held in that Continent. Alph or Alpheus features in concepts of Arcadia, as well as in the famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan and the song Xanadu by the Canadian rock band Rush. Other related archivesArcadia, Esotericism, Europe, Kubla Khan, Rush, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Xanadu, secret knowledge

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Christ's Hospital (also popularly known as the Blue-coat School) is a school which is now in Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom, and was formerly in London. Unusually for an independent school in England and in keeping with its original charitable purpose, fees (tuition and board) are paid on a means-tested basis, with massive subsidies from the school. In 2005, just over 20% of parents paid nothing at all and about one third paid less than £250 per year per child. Well-off families are discouraged - the number of pup ...

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Architecture Cinema Comic books Cuisine Dance Literature Music Poetry Sculpture Television Theater Visual arts The poetry of the United States began as a literary art during the colonial era. Unsurprisingly, most of the early poetry written in the colonies and fledgling republic used contemporary British models of poetic form, diction, and the ...

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The will o' the wisps or ignis fatuus ("fool's fire") is the phenomenon of ghostly lights sometimes seen at night or in twilight hovering over damp ground in still air, often over bogs. The will o' the wisps is said to recede if approached. Much folklore has attached to it, leaving some reluctant to accept scientific explanations. Will o' the wisp - Terminology. The lights themselves (as opposed to the phenomenon) are more often referred to as something like corpse candles, as in the De ...

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Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became an important source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and in a "light" Scots dialect which would have been accessable to a wider audience than simply Scottish people. At various times in his career, he wrote in Eng ...

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Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 –- 27 July 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Charles Lamb was the youngest child of John Lamb, a lawyer's clerk. He was born in Crown Office Row, Inner Temple, London, and spent his youth there, later going away to school at Christ's Hospital. There he formed a close friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge which would last for many yea ...

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An aeolian harp (or æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument that is "played" by the wind. It is named for Aeolus, the ancient Greek god of the wind. Aeolian harps were very popular as household instruments during the Romantic Era, but are still being hand-crafted today. Some are now made in the form of monumental metal sound sculptures located on the roof of a building or a windy hilltop. The traditional aeolian harp is essentially a wooden box including a sounding board, with strings stretched l ...

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Xanadu is a 1980 musical/romance film directed by Robert Greenwald. It stars Olivia Newton-John (fresh from her role in Grease), Michael Beck and Gene Kelly, and features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, UK pop idol Cliff Richard, and the San Francisco-based art-rock band The Tubes. The film's tagline is "A fantasy. A musical. A place where dreams come true." The film was a box-office flop, and was nominated for six Razzies at the first-ever Golden Raspberry Awards (winning one), but the film had en ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1817 - Events. March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America April - Earthquake in Palermo, Italy April 3 - Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England Battle of Maipú, secures chilean independence. May - The G ...

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Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. It stressed strong emotion—which now might include trepidation, awe and horror as aesthetic experiences—the individual imagination as a critical authority—which permitted freedom within or even from classical notions of form in art—and overturning of previous social conventions, particularly the position of the aristocracy. There was a strong element of historical and natural inevitability in its i ...

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In the broadest sense, a vicar (from the Latin vicarius) is anyone acting as a substitute or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious"). In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant. Usually the title appears in a number of Christian ecclesiastical contexts, but in the Holy Roman Empire a local representative of the emperor, perhaps an archduke, might be styled "vicar". Vicar - Roman Catholic. In Roman Catholic canon law, a vicar is the local representative of any ecclesiastic. The Romans had ...

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