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Title: Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909 Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863-1948, joint author
Subjects: English literature American literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Shepp pub. co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and to be called The Pantisocracy ; but as not one of the directorshad money sufficient to transport him to America, they abandoned their Utopianproject. He married a Miss Fricker, a sister to Mrs. Southey, and for a time lived inthe neighborhood of Wordsworth, near Grasmere. Here he wrote most of his bestpoetry, including The Ode to the Departing Year, The Ancient Mariner, and Christabel. Coleridge was at this time a Unitarian in religion, and used topreach without compensation for the congregations of that faith. Receiving anannuity of one hundred and fifty pounds from wealthy admirers, he was enabled totravel in Germany. On his return he issued a periodical called TAe Friend,which, however, endured for less than a year. Some years before he had begunthe use of opium to allay his sufferings from neuralgia, and he had now comecompletely under the dominion of the drug, so that when he tried to lecture inBristol he was unable to keep his engagement. So complete was his failure that 585
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 587 he at last placed himself under the care of a physician in a suburb of London,where he passed in retirement the remaining nineteen years of his life. He hadsome years before abandoned his wife and three children to the care of Southey. The opium habit appears to have been overcome, and in his later years hewrote much prose, including the Lay Sermons, Biographia Literaria, andAids to Reflection. The house of Dr. Gillman became a srreat resort of culti-vated people, who delighted in the brilliant talk of Coleridge. He was always sodelightful a talker that in his youthful days, Lamb tells us, his landlord was readyto give him free entertainment because his conversation attracted so manycustomers. His manner was always animated and sometimes violent; as Words-worth says : His limbs would toss about him with delightLike branches when strong winds the trees annoy. The literary character of Coleridge has been said to resemble some vastunfinished palace. His mind

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