Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Difference between revisions

Interestingly, he was also friends with [[William Wordsworth]] and collaborated with him on the first publication of ''Lyrical Ballads'', which was published anonymously.

 

* ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]''

 

* Coleridge appears as a supporting character in the fantasy novel ''[[The Anubis Gates]]'' by [[Tim Powers]]. He plays an important role in the climax of the plot, reacting calmly to all the weirdness surrounding him because he assumes it's just a particularly vivid drug-induced hallucination.

* In ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' by [[Douglas Adams]], both ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' and ''Kubla Khan'' were messages from aliens, channelled by Coleridge while out of his mind on opium. The Man From Porlock distracted him deliberately to prevent the key part of the message getting written down.

* "One Morning with Samuel, Dorothy and [[William Wordsworth|William]]" by [[Avram Davidson]] is a day in the life of Coleridge, which turns out to be the day of ''Kubla Khan'' and the Man From Porlock.

* Coleridge has a walk-on in "[[The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage]]" by Sydney Padua. Ada Lovelace turns out to be The Person From Porlock, and she sets out to wreck Coleridge's concentration as he writes Kubla Khan, due to her hatred of poetry. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].

 

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