Coleridge-Taylor was 37 when he died of pneumonia. His death is often attributed to the stress of his financial situation. [16] He was buried in Bandon Hill Cemetery, Wallington, Surrey (today in the London Borough of Sutton). Pantisocracy occupied Coleridge’s energies and continued to influence his sense of vocation for some time after the scheme’s collapse in 1795. A communitarian ideal remained essential to his writing, as to the life he now proposed to live. Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts British Music includes "Othello Suite" – New Symphony Orchestra. Label: Beulah Records 1PD13

The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic Drama,act 1 by Coleridge, acts 2 and 3 by Robert Southey (Cambridge: Printed by Benjamin Flower for W. H. Lunn and J. & J. Merrill, sold by J. March, Norwich, 1794). Nonet in F minor for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and piano, Op. 2 – 1894 Coleridge states in a Note: "'This Sonnet, and the ninth, to Stanhope, were among the pieces withdrawn from the second edition of 1797. They reappeared in the edition of 1803, and were again withdrawn in 1828, solely, it may be presumed, on account of their political vehemence. They will excite no angry feelings, and lead to no misapprehensions now, and as they are fully equal to their companions in poetical merit, the Editors have not scrupled to reproduce them. These Sonnets were originally entitled "Effusions".' appears within editions 1796, 1803 and 1852. " The inscription on Coleridge-Taylor's carved headstone includes four bars of music from the composer's best-known work, Hiawatha, and a tribute from his close friend, the poet Alfred Noyes, that includes these words: Thelma by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor". Surrey Opera.org. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012 . Retrieved 7 September 2011.

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On the basis of seemingly contradictory responses, Coleridge has sometimes been depicted as a turncoat who betrayed his original revolutionary sympathies. His poems suggest, and his lay sermons of the period confirm, that his allegiance was always to an ideal of freedom, not to democratic insurgency. The quality of his ambivalence did not prevent his speaking out in situations which damaged his reputation among Burke’s party, his natural constituency. What sort of revolutionary would enlist in the king’s army in this perilous moment? Coleridge did so on 2 December 1793 under an assumed name, fleeing debts and discouragement at college. He was rescued by family and friends after serving locally for some five months. Escape, servitude, and retreat would become a familiar pattern in Coleridge’s life.

The Philosophical Lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,edited by Kathleen Coburn (London & New York: Pilot Press, 1949; New York: Philosophical Library, 1949). Poems on Various Subjects,by Coleridge, with four sonnets by Charles Lamb and part of another by Southey (London: C. G. & J. Robinsons/Bristol: J. Cottle, 1796); revised and enlarged as Poems,with poems by Lamb and Charles Lloyd (Bristol: Printed by N. Biggs for J. Cottle and Robinsons, London, 1797; third edition with deletions, London: Printed by N. Biggs for T. N. Longman & O. Rees, 1803).

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The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,edited by Coburn, 3 volumes to date (New York: Pantheon, 1957- ). Prior to 1834, the second paragraph read: To this place the Author conducted a party of young Ladies, during the Summer months of the year 1793, &c. Thomas J. Wise, A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,2 volumes (London: Bibliographical Society, 1913). Carr, Catherine (2005). The Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912): A Critical and Analytical Study (PDF) (Thesis). University of Durham. pp.160 to 198. A year after the death of his father in 1781 Coleridge was sent to Christ’s Hospital, the London grammar school where he would pass his adolescence training in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, at which he excelled, and in English composition. His basic literary values were formed here under the tutelage of the Reverend James Bowyer, a larger-than-life figure who balanced classical models with native English examples drawn from Shakespeare and Milton. While Wordsworth was imitating Thomas Gray at Hawkshead Grammar School, Coleridge was steeping in this long tradition of distinguished writing, learning to compose on Bowyer’s principles. These included an insistence on sound sense and clear reference in phrase, metaphor, and image: literary embroidery was discouraged. So were conventional similes and stale poetic diction. Coleridge’s later development as a poet may be characterized as an effort to arrive at a natural voice which eschewed such devices. Critical of the rhetorical excesses of the poetry of sensibility which prevailed at the time, he would join forces with Wordsworth in promoting “natural thoughts with natural diction” ( Biographia Literaria, chapter 1).

First published with prefaratory note 'The fact that in Greek Psyche is the common name for the soul, and the butterfly, is thus alluded to in the following stanzas from an unpublished poem of the Author'. Coleridge-Taylor, Avril, The Heritage of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London: Dobson, 1979, pp. 145–154.Marie-Nicolas Bouillet et Alexis Chassang (dir.), «Samuel Taylor Coleridge» dans Dictionnaire universel d’histoire et de géographie, 1878 ( lire sur Wikisource) If they are significant at all it is because they epitomize his reputation as the truant phantast of romantic legend. He did much to encourage it, certainly, but he lived to regret what his friends made of him and to defend himself against charges of idleness and premature decay. The Coleridge phenomenon, as it might be called, has been recounted in every literary generation, usually with the emphasis on wonder rather than disappointment, though sometimes—among moralizing critics, never among poets—with a venom which recalls the disillusionment of his associates. Henry James’s story, “The Coxon Fund” (1895), based on table talk of the genius who became a nuisance, is indicative of both attitudes. The Coleridge phenomenon has distorted Coleridge’s real achievement, which was unique in scope and aspiration if all too human in its fits and starts. A reader seemingly by instinct, Coleridge grew up surrounded by books at school, at home, and in his aunt’s shop. The dreamy child’s imagination was nourished by his father’s tales of the planets and stars and enlarged by constant reading. Through this, “my mind had been habituated to the Vast—& I never regarded my senses in any way as the criteria of my belief. I regulated all my creeds by my conceptions not by my sight—even at that age.” Romances and fairy tales instilled in him a feeling of “the Great” and “the Whole.” It was a lesson he never forgot. Experience he always regarded as a matter of whole and integrated response, not of particular sensations. Resolving conflicted feelings into whole response occupies much of his best verse, and his developed philosophical synthesis represents a comparable effort of resolution. Variations in B minor for violoncello & piano at the Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection Date reflects date of collection, as, although stated to have been published within the literary remains, the edition was not stated, and the first publication date not found.

As a result of these factors, Coleridge often failed to prepare anything but the loosest set of notes for his lectures and regularly entered into extremely long digressions which his audiences found difficult to follow. However, it was the lecture on Hamlet given on 2 January 1812 that was considered the best and has influenced Hamlet studies ever since. Before Coleridge, Hamlet was often denigrated and belittled by critics from Voltaire to Dr. Johnson. Coleridge rescued the play's reputation, and his thoughts on it are often still published as supplements to the text. Anthony John Harding, Coleridge and the Inspired Word(Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985). The couple had a son, named Hiawatha (1900–1980) after the poetic figure, and a daughter Gwendolen Avril (1903–1998). Both had careers in music: Hiawatha adapted his father's works. [10] Gwendolen started composing music early in life, and also became a conductor-composer; she used the professional name of Avril Coleridge-Taylor.Lawrence Hanson, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Early Years(London: Allen & Unwin, 1938; New York: Oxford University Press, 1939). In 1794, during a walking tour from Cambridge where he was an undergraduate, he met Robert Southey and together they devised a plan to set up a commune of six families in the valley of the Susquehanna, New England, a scheme which eventually collapsed in argument and conflict. Coleridge and Southey married two of three sisters who had been involved in the abortive plans. Coleridge and his wife, Sara, then moved to Nether Stowey, with their now young family and it was near here that Coleridge met William Wordsworth and began a friendship which, despite difficulties, had a profound influence on the work of both poets, and on the development of English poetry itself. Most of Coleridge’s best work, and all the poems recorded here, were written during the years 1797–8 between walking and talking with Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy.