7 дек 1790 г. - 1790's sqq Samuel T Coleridge

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Contrary to Wordsworth, whose starting pt is the everyday world of nature, C offers a darker vision, linking nature to the mysterious, the mystical and the supernatural. He collaborated with W on 'The Lyrical Ballads', sharing with him a belief in the regenerative power of nature and imagination. C's best known poems are his three mystery or daemonic poems, in which man is confronted with the mystical and the supernatural, which reveal the hidden energy of the mind
-'The rime of the ancient mariner' 1798
-'Kubla Khan' (1816)
-'Christabel' (1816)

in the early 19th, as C was ravaged by alcohol and opium, the mood of his poems became more sombre