The death of Kings Mar 15, 2008
Samuel Taylor Coleridge loved looking at works of art with his son Hartley because he believed that children are better at willingly suspending their disbelief than adults are. It was a privilege to watch Tom watching the tragedian representing the "fresh bleeding" of Talbot because it seemed so real to him, just as it did to those first spectators at the Rose. (Guardian Unlimited)
LETTER: Christians do good works in many places Mar 5, 2008
The Question wrote on Mar 4, 2008 10:44 AM:" He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ". shumphreys wrote on Mar 4, 2008 11:49 AM:" I did it again, I responded to Ms. Flood on my thread not on this one. I can't juggle five different letters at once. All too often people don't see what is going on in their own communities. I think the Bible... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Farmers Could Feel Impact From the Great Lakes Compact Feb 8, 2008
These words, written in the late 1700s by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his epic poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner, may become more familiar to many of us as the discussion of the Great Lakes Compact comes under closer scrutiny. The Great Lakes Compact-St. (Agri-View, WI)
McCain could spoil fairytale's happy ending Feb 4, 2008
It is the magical and fantastical element of his campaign that has so many Americans allowing themselves to submit to what Samuel Taylor Coleridge called "the willing suspension of disbelief". "I'm asking you to believe," reads the slogan across the top of his website. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Calendula Colorful Annual Flower Nov 19, 2007
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This colorful, annual flower is distributed throughout the world as a garden plant. (Suite101.com)
Read On And On Nov 13, 2007
Not for nothing was Samuel Taylor Coleridge inclined to size up readers by dividing them into i) Sponges who absorb all they read, ii) Sandglasses who retain nothing and go through a book to spend time, iii) Strainbags who retain merely the dregs of what they read, and iv) Moghul diamonds who profit by reading and share the benefit with others. While the sandglasses are harmless creatures the sponges are now an improved lot in their modern version as they absorb selectively. (India Times, India)
Not worth its salt? Nov 10, 2007
"Water, water, everywhere/ Nor any drop to drink." That's how an old sea salt lamented his fate in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Okay, that's the culture lesson over for this week. (Globe and Mail)
Fireside Talks At Strummer School Nov 2, 2007
He's directed documentaries, music videos and dramas involving, well, pretty much everything: the Sex Pistols, the Rolling Stones, French director Jean Vigo, and Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten," Temple turns his attention to the Clash frontman and self-described "punk-rock warlord.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)
When visiting Titan bring an umbrella Oct 13, 2007
But this is hardly the paradise romanticized by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem "Kubla Kahn.". New images from Hawaii's W.M. Keck Observatory and Chile's Very Large Telescope show nearly global cloud cover at high elevations and a dreary morning drizzle that seems to dissipate around midmorning local time -- which is about three Earth days after sunrise. (Globe and Mail)
On Saturn's moon Titan, bring an umbrella Oct 13, 2007
But this is hardly the paradise romanticized by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem "Kubla Kahn." ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Yahoo News)
Hang in there, Jean, but take control Oct 10, 2007
The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said: "What comes from the heart, goes to the heart." I'll leave this for you to interpret, Mr. Chr. tien, but it's time to chart a new course. (Globe and Mail)
Language: For politicians and poets, the suspension of disbelief Oct 7, 2007
The quotation books have the coiner - the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his 1817 "Biographia Literaria": "That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.". But the context is an eye-opener. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
This Lime Tree Bower Sep 26, 2007
Acclaimed Irish scripter Conor McPherson appropriately nabs the title for this captivating word fest from a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that ends with the stanza, "...No sound is dissonant which tells of life." A purveyor of the great art of storytelling, Irish-style, McPherson masterfully conjures up a tangible celebration of human existence as experienced by three beer-swilling Irishmen. Helmer Allan Miller guides with a light hand, allowing the essence of McPherson's infectious,... (Variety)
Would-be presidents put Petraeus to the test Sep 12, 2007
She told them their testimony required a willing suspension of disbelief the phrase the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge used to describe the state of mind a reader of fiction or romantic poetry must have. She wasnt exactly calling them liars, but perhaps fiction writers. (MSNBC -- Politics)
From rolling seas to rolling plains, cowboy poetry is an oral tradition with a following and cadence all its own Sep 9, 2007
She remembers old cowboy neighbors like Blitz Nelson, who d materialize only several times a year, reciting lines from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Water, water everywhere. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
30 years after his death, Elvis lives on in the digital age Aug 14, 2007
Mason likens Presley's contributions to those of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Herman Melville, whose influence on lyrical poetry and novelistic structure have reverberated through centuries. "Elvis, frankly, had an even wider impact on popular culture than those two, simply due to the mass communication of our age," Mason says. (USA Today)
Romance readers cut their literary teeth on vampire fiction Aug 6, 2007
" Sex, after all, sells. And there is simply no mistaking the overtones of leading antagonists who have mysterious backgrounds, cause fear and bite, said John Vance, who is an English professor at the University of Georgia. Such a character circulated in fiction well before Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was published in 1897. The poem "Christobel" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797 bore characteristics scholars liken to later vampires. Lord George Byron created a character his physician Dr. John... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Hudson foresees major growth on U.S. 82 Aug 1, 2007
In between ginning bales of the fiber, the English major would pore over the works of William Shakespeare, John Milton and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The experience, says Hudson, instilled in him the connection between higher education and the local economy. (Greenwood Commonwealth, MS)
When Trouble Comes Flooding In Jul 24, 2007
As Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink". So, if you're worried about the effect that invading water could have on your home (owned or rented), then check out these tips, which come courtesy of Nationwide BS and Fool. (Sky News)
Q&A: curriculum reform Jul 12, 2007
The issue explained: Secondary school curriculum reform. Donald MacLeod looks at what 11 to 14-year-old pupils can expect to learn under the latest reforms to the secondary school curriculum. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Broadway review: 'Xanadu' is fun, lively Jul 12, 2007
Of course, it is 1980 - the year "all inspiration left the arts." "Xanadu" has nothing to do with the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge or the Off-Broadway show from 2003 called "Zanna, Don't!" The show is a bit like "Little Shop of Horrors" with social conscience, clearly enjoying the chance to make fools of Andrew Lloyd Webber and, as Zeus observes, musicals made from "some stinkeroo movie or some songwriter's catalog.". If, as Hoffman's muse claims, the show is "like children's theater for... (Newsday -- Entertainment)
The Devil Kissed Her Jul 7, 2007
The bulk of the work was done by Mary who was highly regarded by her peers and friends who were some of the greatest literary giants of all time such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Her friend s high regard for her achievement was well deserved. (Suite101.com)
William Blakes The Schoolboy Jul 2, 2007
The comparison is ludicrous, but Blake s creative principle requires much of what Samuel Taylor Coleridge called suspension of disbelief from the reader. Perhaps, too much. (Suite101.com)
An Albatross In The Room Jun 22, 2007
" The waiting crowd quickly grew. For most people, an albatross is either a distant speck in the sky glimpsed from a boat, an obese sea gull or something around one's neck -- from "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Children shouted, "What is it. " Other typical questions: What does she eat? Will she get any bigger? Is this the same thing I saw on my cruise? Slager said there are 21 species of albatross, and the Laysan is among the most prolific. Makana,... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Book roundup: Fiction, in brief Jun 21, 2007
The great-great-great-great-great- grandson of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivers a picaresque romp through the English upper class and countryside in his 10th novel. The main character, Anthony Anscombe, scion of a private family bank, is lord not just of a manor but the entire town. (USA Today -- Life)
Skywatch: Moon and Venus to pair up May 12, 2007
The English poet, critic, and philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) used just such a celestial sight as an ominous portent in his epic, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." In addition, there are juxtaposed crescent moon and star symbols that have appeared on the flags of many nations, including Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, Algeria, Mauritania, and Tunisia. Cosmic Sightings. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Where to See an Albatross May 9, 2007
Seafarers once believed that albatrosses carried the souls of drowned sailors, and thought it was bad luck to kill one, a superstition famously illustrated in Samuel Taylor Coleridge s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. These beliefs may well have been inspired by two characteristics of these large seabirds: albatrosses follow ships for days at a time and they rarely visit land except to breed on remote isolated islands. (Suite101.com)
District prepares to vote on Bible, religion courses Apr 5, 2007
Additional supplemental reading materials suggested include works from authors such as Plato, William Shakespeare, Emily Bronte, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Johann Goethe, Alfred Tennyson, Emily Dickenson, T.S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The World Religions course is proposed as a semester-long high school elective. (North County Times)
Charles Bronson Mar 31, 2007
Recent letters have been from George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The site, run by Artforum editor Brian Sholis, is at. (The Palm Beach Post)
Book Review: The Friendship - Wordsworth and Coleridge Mar 19, 2007
One summer day in 1797, after walking 40 miles, young Samuel Taylor Coleridge bustled down a Dorset hillside and burst through a cornfield into the garden where William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, were at work. The two- or three-day visit became three weeks of tramping the countryside, nightlong talk about a new world and the poetry that was to shape it, and long sessions of feverish writing at a common table. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Her father's voice Mar 11, 2007
How many of these poems can be read for pleasure by the lover of Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Christina Rossetti rather than merely for study by the student enrolled on a course in Victorian women of letters. Swaab takes a high-risk strategy, beginning his introduction with three stanzas beneath the unpromising title "Doggrel Charm: to a little lump of malignity, on being medically assured that it was not a fresh growth, but an old growth splitting." He compares it to Harold Pinter's poetic... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Rethinking bird brains Feb 25, 2007
The albatross in Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Rime of the Ancient Mariner displays a similar culinary aptitude to that of the modern scrub-jays, as. astonished scientists by hoarding peanuts in the dog food compartment. (Cambridge Varsity Online)
Teachers fight back over classics Feb 17, 2007
QCA LIST OF CLASSIC AUTHORS Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Charlotte Brnte, Robert Burns, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kate Chopin, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, John Masefield, Alexander Pope, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare (sonnets), Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, HG Wells, Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth.... (BBC News -- UK)
Poems by Coleridge's daughter found Jan 27, 2007
The discovery of 120 unknown poems by Sara Coleridge, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ranks her as an important minor poet, a British scholar says. Peter Swaab, who made the find, said the cache sheds new light on the struggles facing an intellectual woman in Victorian England, the Telegraph reported. (Washington Times, DC)
New Sara Coleridge poems uncovered Jan 26, 2007
Now, with the publication of 185 of her poems, two-thirds of which have only recently been discovered, the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge has been revealed as a talented and versatile poet in her own right ... "Sara Coleridge's prodigious output gives the lie to the long-held belief that she had sacrificed her own creativity to that of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge," said Dr Swaab. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
‘Faust' discovery bounces UM dean into international spotlight Jan 21, 2007
McKusick helped crack the case of a 36-year-old hunt to prove that an 1820 anonymous, commercial translation of the provocative German telling of the Faust legend was the work of Britain's famed poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... In September, Oxford University Press will publish the translation, findings and supporting documentation in a book co-edited by McKusick and Burwick and titled austus: From the German of Goethe Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Missoulian, MT)
UM dean helps crack mystery of Coleridge and 'Faust' Jan 17, 2007
- A University of Montana dean's professional odyssey has helped unearth what is believed to be a previously unknown work of the great British poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... In September, Oxford University Press will publish the translation, findings and supporting documentation in a book co-edited by McKusick and his partner, Frederick Burwick, titled "Faustus: From the German of Goethe Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.". (Helena Independent Record)
UM Honors College dean cracks mystery of Coleridge and ‘Faust' Jan 14, 2007
James McKusick, dean of the University of Montana's Davidson's Honors College, has played a large role in a major literary discovery, a previously unknown work by British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... At the heart of the excitement is James McKusick, dean of the University of Montana's Davidson Honors College, who after a 36-year hunt has helped sleuth out what is believed to be a previously unknown work of the great British poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ... In September, Oxford University... (Missoulian, MT)
Get ready for Burns' birthday Jan 7, 2007
Besides, there's good reason for Burns' enviable spot in the literary canon: Among various other accomplishments, he pioneered the Romantic movement and inspired writers including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth. The only way to appreciate Burns' skill is by reading his work. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
