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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Man of Intellect… Or Insanity?
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A kind-hearted man who is obliged to give a refusal or the like which will inflict great pain, finds a relief in doing it roughly and fiercely.
—S.T. Coleridge
What on Earth would influence a person to write in such odd and seemingly demented prose? Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s life was complicated from the beginning, and the illnesses and addictions that he encountered on the way to adulthood affected his writing very deeply.
Coleridge lived during the era when the commonly held belief was that children were better off seen than heard. Coleridge, an only child, was a genius, a child prodigy. However, because society would have him believe that his young age signified having nothing worthwhile to speak of, he kept his unusual thoughts
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