柯勒律治生平(英文版)部分诗作

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads,(1798)

written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, as the youngest son of the vicar of Ottery St Mary.

After his father's death Coleridge was sent away to Christ's Hospital School in London. He also studied at Jesus College.

In Cambridge Coleridge met the radical, future poet laureate Robert Southey. He moved with Southey to Bristol to

establish a community, but the plan failed. In 1795 he married the sister of Southey's fiancée Sara Fricker, whom he

did not really love.

Coleridge's collection Poems On Various Subjects was published in 1796, and in 1797 appeared Poems. In the same

year he began the publication of a short-lived liberal political periodical The Watchman. He started a close friendship

with Dorothy and William Wordsworth, one of the most fruitful creative relationships in English literature. From it

resulted Lyrical Ballads, which opened with Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and ended with Wordsworth's

"Tintern Abbey". These poems set a new style by using everyday language and fresh ways of looking at nature.

The brothers Josiah and Thomas Wedgewood granted Coleridge an annuity of 150 pounds, thus enabling him to

pursue his literary career. Disenchanted with political developments in France, Coleridge visited Germany in 1798-99

with Dorothy and William Wordsworth, and became interested in the works of Immanuel Kant. He studied philosophy

at Göttingen University and mastered the German language. At the end of 1799 Coleridge fell in love with Sara

Hutchinson, the sister of Wordsworth's future wife, to whom he devoted his work "Dejection: An Ode" (1802). During

these years Coleridge also began to compile his Notebooks, recording the daily meditations of his life. In 1809-10 he

wrote and edited with Sara Hutchinson the literary and political magazine The Friend. From 1808 to 1818 he gave

several lectures, chiefly in London, and was considered the greatest of Shakespearean critics. In 1810 Coleridge's

friendship with Wordsworth came to a crisis, and the two poets never fully returned to the relationship they had

earlier.

Suffering from neuralgic and rheumatic pains, Coleridge had become addicted to opium. During the following years he

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.

In 1816 the unfinished poems "Christabel" and "Kubla Khan" were published, and next year appeared "Sibylline

Leaves". According to the poet, "Kubla Khan" was inspired by a dream vision. His most important production during

this period was the Biographia Literaria(1817). After 1817 Coleridge devoted himself to theological and

politico-sociological works. Coleridge was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1824. He died in

Highgate, near London on July 25, 1834.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

古舟子咏

Part I

It is an ancient Mariner,

And he stoppeth one of three.

`By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,

Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?

The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,

And I am next of kin;

The guests are met, the feast is set:

Mayst hear the merry din.'

He holds him with his skinny hand,

"There was a ship," quoth he.

`Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!'

Eftsoons his hand dropped he.

He holds him with his glittering eye -

The Wedding-Guest stood still,

And listens like a three years' child:

The Mariner hath his will.

The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:

He cannot choose but hear;

And thus spake on that ancient man,

The bright-eyed Mariner.

"The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,

Merrily did we drop

Below the kirk, below the hill,

Below the lighthouse top.

The sun came up upon the left,

Out of the sea came he!

And he shone bright, and on the right

Went down into the sea.

Higher and higher every day,

Till over the mast at noon -"

The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,

For he heard the loud bassoon.

The bride hath paced into the hall,

Red as a rose is she;

Nodding their heads before her goes

The merry minstrelsy.

The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,

Yet he cannot choose but hear;