SamuelTaylorColeridge概要.pptx

Samuel Taylor Coleridge;Brief Introduction;childhood;As a child, Coleridge was already a prodigious(惊人的，异常的） reader. He started to read at the age of 3. We can learn his fondness to reading from a letter written to Thomas Poole. ;“At six years old, I remember to have read?Belisarius,?Robinson Crusoe, and?Philip Quarll?– and then I found the?Arabian Nights‘ Entertainments(一千零一夜）– one tale of which made so deep an impression on me that I was haunted by spectres (幽灵，鬼怪） whenever I was in the dark – and I distinctly remember the anxious and fearful eagerness with which I used to watch the window in which the books lay – and whenever the sun lay upon them, I would seize it, carry it by the wall, and bask, and read. ;In 1781(when Coleridge was 9 years old), his father died suddenly. In the following year, Coleridge entered Christ’s Hospital(基督医学院） in London, a charity school which was founded in the 16th century in?Greyfriars, London, where he remained reading, studying and writing poetry. ;At that school, Coleridge became friends with Charles Lamb, a schoolmate, and studied the works of?Virgil?and William Lisle Bowles. ;Throughout his life, Coleridge idealised his father as pious and innocent, while his relationship with his mother was more problematic.? His childhood was characterised by attention seeking(寻求关注）, which has been linked to his dependent personality（依赖型人格） as an adult.? He was rarely allowed to return home during the school term, and this distance from his family at such a turbulent time proved emotionally damaging.? With unclosed lids, already had I dreamt of my sweet birthplace. -----?Frost at Midnight;In 1791, he entered Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1792, he won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode(赋，颂歌） that he wrote on the slave trade. In 1793, oppressed by financial difficulties, and the rejection of ?Mary Evans，his first love, he went to London and enlisted in the?Royal Dragoons?(皇家骑兵） u