Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a poet, critic, and philosopher throughout his life. He was the youngest child in his family of fourteen. Coleridge was well educated. Coleridge entered Jesus College, University of Cambridge in 1791; he focused on a future in the Church of England. He was friends with another great famous poet, William Wordsworth. Coleridge fell in love with Sara Hutchinson, the sister of Wordsworth's future wife, to whom he devoted Dejection: An Ode to. Samuel Coleridge suffered from neuralgic and rheumatic pains. That resulted in Coleridge becoming addicted to of opium. Coleridge lived in London, on the verge of suicide. He found a permanent shelter in Highgate in the household of Dr. James Gillman, and enjoyed an almost legendary reputation among the younger Romantics. During this time he rarely left the house. Over the next two decades Coleridge lectured on literature and philosophy, wrote about religious and political theory, spent two years on the island of Malta as a secretary to the governor in an effort to overcome his poor health and his opium addiction. He lived off of financial donations and grants to support him. Samuel Coleridge seemed to have a rough life and his addiction to opium may have lead to his depressing writing style. George Gordon, Lord Byron, was a poet and was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon. He was born with a club-foot. The deformation was a very sensitive issue for him to deal with. He inherited the title and property of his great-uncle in 1798. As a result he went on to Dulwich, Harrow, and Cambridge, where he piled up debts and a very strange behavior was quoted as having been “aroused alarm with bisexual love affairs.” Staying at Newstead in 1802, he probably first met his half-sister, Augusta Leigh with whom he was later suspected of having an incestuous relationship. It appears that Lord George Gordon Byron has had some rather abnormal sexual relationships....