Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
Early Life
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772, in the town of Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire. He was the youngest of ten children born to Ann Bowden, the second wife of Coleridge’s father, John Coleridge, a clergyman and schoolmaster. Coleridge was an intellectually precocious child, with an early love of books and study. He was particularly enthralled by The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (c. 1450), which he read at the age of five.
In 1782, one year after the death of his father, Coleridge was enrolled in the Christ’s Hospital Grammar...
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