A journey to Italy and Malta was an attempt to iprove his health.
After his return to England he separated from his wife, and he attracted much attention with a string of talks he gave in London.
Moving back to the Lake District, he had a quarrel with Wordsworth who did not approve of his friend’s opium addiction.
Thus the momentous friendship between the two poets came to an end.
Coleridge spent the rest of his life in London.
But his period of poetic creativity was over, and he devoted himself to prose works; he gave lectures – he was particularly famous for his lectures on Shakespeare, he contributed to newspapers, and even managed to entertain a growing number of devotees with his brillant conversations.
The Biographia Literaria, which shows the wide-ranging power of his mind, was published in 1817.
It contains autobiography, literary criticism, and philosophy.
Its sections on the superiority of the imagination over mere logic are classics, as are the analyses of literary works by Wordsworth and Shakespeare.
His last years brought a reconciliation with Wordsworth and his wife.
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A journey to Italy and Malta was an attempt to iprove his health.
After his return to England he separated from his wife.
Moving back to the Lake District, he had a quarrel with Wordsworth who did not approve of his friend’s opium addiction.
Coleridge spent the rest of his life in London.
His period of poetic creativity was over, and he devoted himself to prose works.
His last years brought a reconciliation with Wordsworth and his wife.