The Life of Coleridge Trivia Quiz

Answer: Devon

In the village of Ottery St Mary.

Answer: Vicar

Sam was a young boy when he died, and he never really recovered.

Answer: Grey

Everyone who ever met him remarked on them!

Answer: The Ancient Mariner

'By thy long, grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stoppst thou me'?

Answer: Robert Southey

Southey was happy throughout his married {life;} Coleridge, unfortunately was not.

Answer: William Wordsworth

His love for Sara Hutchinson was a large factor in his growing dependency on opium.

Answer: Asra

I guess I don't need to point out that this is an anagram of Sara {;-).}

Answer: Porlock

Coleridge was in an opium induced haze and is convinced that he wrote around 300 lines whilst in this reverie. He began to write them down but was interrupted and could only remember the fragment that remains today.

Answer: Dejection: an Ode

He changed the addressee of this poem three times !!

Answer: London

He spent time in all the other places listed but saw out the last 18 years of his life in Highgate and was buried in St Michael's church, under the following epitaph which he wrote himself: Stop Christian passer-by! Stop child of God! And read with gentle {breast;} beneath this sod, a poet lies, or that which once seemed he, O lift one thought in prayer for S.T.C. ! That he who, many a year, with toil of breath, Found death in life, may here find life in death. Mercy for praise, to be forgiv'n for fame, He asked, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same! If you'd like to know more about this endearing and extraordinary man read Richard Holmes' brilliant two volume biography. 'Early Visions' deals with the first half of his life (until 1805) and 'Darker Reflections' documents the rest. An astonishing and utterly compulsive read.