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Elective English—IV

Notes Poetry
Arch (1798)
Arch (1800)
Biographia Literaria (1907)

Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)
Fears in Solitude (1798)
Lyrical Ballads, with a few Other Poems (1798)
Poems (1803)

Poems on Various Subjects (1796)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Oxford Authors (1985)
Selections from the Sybilline Leaves of S. T. Coleridge (1827)
Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems (1817)

Sonnets from various authors (1796)
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1969)

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1912)
The Devil’s Walk: A Poem (1830)

The Literary Remains in Prose and Verse of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839)
The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge (1828)
Drama

Remorse, A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1813)
The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic Drama (1794)
Periodicals
The Watchman: A Periodical Publication (1796)

3.2 His Later Years and Death

A legend in his time, Samuel Taylor Coleridge died in 1834 after years of discomfort and
disappointment. According to his friends and family, Samuel failed because of early expectations
and because of hopes that got defeated by drugs and disease.
By 1811 Samuel became increasingly dependent on opium. This, along with immense pressure
of work, led to arguments with Wordsworth and the irreparable breakdown of their friendship.

Samuel, in 1816 got treated for his opium addiction with Highgate surgeon James Gillman.
Samuel started living with James and remained there until his death on 25 July 1834. This was a
pleasant period in Samuel’s life and he was called the ‘sage of Highgate’.

An autopsy, conducted on Samuel’s body at his own request, showed that he was suffering from
an enlarged heart. In the last year of his life Samuel wrote his own epitaph.
Despite everything Coleridge is regarded as a powerful poet of lasting influence. As a poet, a
political thinker and a Christian apologist, Samuel inspired several generations after his own.

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