Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Confessions of an Inquirer: Advice Is Like Snow; The Softer It Falls, the Longer It Dwells Upon, and the Deeper It Sinks Int
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21st, 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, England. As a young child he was an early and devoted reader. After his father died in 1781, 8-year-old Samuel was sent to Christ's Hospital, in Greyfriars, London, where he remained throughout childhood, studying and writing poetry. From 1791 Coleridge attended Jesus College, Cambridge and in 1792, he won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode on the slave trade. In December 1793, he left the college to enlist in the Royal Dragoons using the name "e;Silas Tomkyn Comberbache"e;. His brothers arranged for his discharge a few months later and he was readmitted to Jesus College. He was introduced to political and theological ideas including those of the poet Robert Southey. In 1795, the two friends married sisters Sarah and Edith Fricker, Bristol, but Coleridge's marriage with Sarah proved unhappy. He grew to...
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