Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Writings, Collaborations, and Opium Years (1794–1834)

1. Collaboration begins on revolutionary stage drama

   Oct 1, 1794Labels: Samuel Taylor, Robert Southey, The Fall

   • Fall Robespierre
   • Britannica

2. Friendship with Wordsworth sets shared direction

   Jan 1, 1795Labels: Samuel Taylor, William Wordsworth

   • Britannica
   • Britannica

3. Nether Stowey poems refine intimate style

   Jan 1, 1797Labels: Nether Stowey, Conversation Poems

   • Lime Tree
   • EBSCO

4. Dream-fragment “Kubla Khan” is composed

   Oct 1, 1797Labels: Kubla Khan, Laudanum

   • Britannica
   • Kubla Khan

5. Lyrical Ballads launches a Romantic breakthrough

   Jan 1, 1798Labels: Lyrical Ballads, The Rime

   • Britannica
   • Mariner

6. “Dejection: An Ode” voices creative and emotional crisis

   Oct 4, 1802Labels: Dejection An, Samuel Taylor

   • Dejection
   • EBSCO

7. Malta appointment ties health hopes to public service

   Dec 1, 1804Labels: Malta appointment, Colonial service

   • Britannica
   • Coleridge

8. The Friend periodical tests his public voice

   Jun 1, 1809Labels: The Friend, Periodical

   • NYPL
   • Christies

9. Remorse succeeds on the London stage

   Jan 23, 1813Labels: Remorse, Drury Lane

   • Cornell
   • Osorio Remorse

10. Highgate move begins long managed opium years

    Apr 1, 1816Labels: Highgate, Dr James

    • Gillman
    • Highgate

11. Christabel and “Kubla Khan” finally reach print

    May 25, 1816Labels: Christabel, Kubla Khan

    • Christabel
    • Kubla Khan

12. Biographia Literaria defines his critical legacy

    Jan 1, 1817Labels: Biographia Literaria, Literary criticism

    • Britannica
    • Gutenberg

13. Sibylline Leaves consolidates his poetic canon

    Jan 1, 1817Labels: Sibylline Leaves, Collected poems

    • Morgan
    • Wikisource

14. Aids to Reflection extends influence into religion

    Jan 1, 1825Labels: Aids to, Religious prose

    • Oxford
    • Christies

15. Church-and-state treatise caps his public role

    Dec 1, 1829Labels: On the, Church and

    • Routledge
    • Collected Works

16. Death fixes a two-part legacy: poet and critic

    Jul 25, 1834Labels: Highgate, Death of

    • Britannica
    • Coleridge