Reminiscence of Coleridge

"Memoir for a listener's ear." Quote by Brian Strand Let me share a reminiscence of Coleridge's life with you . . . born in 1772, the youngest of ten children Samuel was an avid reader from a young age liked the solitude of being a loner deep an calm after his fathers death, when he was only eight he was sent to a charity school, a silent loner still spending his childhood writing poetry and reading books with musings, and pauses of thoughts soon, he was having crippling bouts of anxiety and was physically unhealthy - treated with opium becoming addicted- yet, he still wrote with the highs and lows in 1796 he published his first book, Poems on Various Subjects and his writing grew and grew, it was a turbulent career and life still, he married and had four children- they distanced themselves because of his addiction to opium, alone again with hauntings he died on 1834, age 61 of heart failure, forever hushed in Highgate, Middlesex England after his death he became one of the most influential figures in English Poetry . . .