#samuel taylor coleridge

[burningvelvet]

being a romantic era poet: a quick how-to guide

walk around in nature contemplating Things. start hiking, swimming, sailing, rowing, shooting, riding, etc. for inspiration

be obsessed with the french revolution and related enlightenment-era figures like rousseau, voltaire, mary wollstonecraft, and madame de staël. be more disappointed by napoleon bonaparte than you are by your own father. 

speaking of fathers, your parents and most of your other relatives are all either dying or dead or emotionally abusive. if you have any siblings (full, half, step, or adopted) who DIDN'T die tragically already, then you may choose to be close to them. you also may end up being much TOO close to them. various circumstances may also ban you from seeing them. 

be at least slightly touched by madness and/or some other severe illness(es) including but not limited to: consumption, horrors, syphilis, deformities, lameness, terrors, piles, boils, pox, allergies, coughing, sleep abnormalities, gonorrhea, etc. — for which you must take frequent bed rest and copious amounts of Laudanum (opium derivation)

consider foregoing meat and adopting a vegetable diet instead to purify the spirits. you may also abstain from alcohol for the same reasons. alternatively, you may attempt the veggie diet, end up rejecting it, and becoming a rampant alcoholic instead. in romanticism there is no healthy medium between abstinence and excess.

reject, or at least heavily criticize, christianity. refuse to get married in a church and consider becoming a fervent champion of atheism. alternatively, you may embrace catholicism, but only on an aesthetic basis. eastern religions and minority religions are also acceptable, only because they piss off the christians. 

if you’re not a self-hating member of the aristocracy and instead have to work for a living, do something that allows you to benefit society, be creative, and/or contemplate life. viable options include, but are not limited to: apothecarist, doctor, teacher, preacher, lawyer, farmer, printmaker, publisher, editor. there is also the possibility of earning a few coins from your art. if you were cursed to be born a She, no worries. we believe in equality. you may choose from these occupations: wife, nanny, housekeeper, spinster, amanuensis (copy writer for a man), lady’s companion, divorced wife, singer/actress/escort, widow, regular escort, tutor, or housewife. 

speaking of sexist institutions, try rejecting marriage entirely. Declare your eternal devotion to your lover by having sex with them on your mother’s grave instead.

if you do get married — elope, and only let it be for necessary financial reasons, or to try and save a teenage girl from her controlling family, or out of true love with someone you view as your intellectual equal, or because your life is so racked with scandals and debt that you can only clear your name by matrimony to a wealthy religious woman as your last resort before fleeing the country.

After marriage, quickly assert your belief in the powers of free love and bisexuality by taking extramarital lovers and suggesting your spouse follow suit. If they cannot keep up with your intellectual escapades then consider leaving them. Later on, propose a platonic friendship with them following the separation, or beg them for reconciliation.

If your marriage is happy, try moving in with another bohemian couple to shake things up. Alternatively, you may die before the wedding for dramatic effect.

If you beget children (whether in or out of marriage, makes no matter), do society a favor by choosing to raise them with your beliefs. Consider adopting orphan children, or even non-orphan children. If their parents are poor enough they probably won’t mind. Try kidnapp— I mean adopting — children off the side of the road if you can. 

DIE but do it creatively. ideally young. ideas: prophecy your own death, lead an army into war and then die right before your first battle and on your deathbed curse everyone and demand to see a witch, write a will leaving money to your mistresses or some random young man you have an unrequited romantic obsession with, carry a copy of your dead friend's poetry and read it right before you drown so that your washed up corpse can only be identified by his book in your pocket, die while staring at your lover's shriveled up heart that you keep wrapped up in a copy of his own poetry and then be buried with it, die of the poet's illness (consumption) while your artist friend draws you and then be buried with your lover's writing, get mysteriously poisoned (by yourself) after a series of scandals and accidents and then have your family announce that you were killed by god, die from romanticizing poverty or receiving bad reviews from literary critics, die from walking or horseback riding in the cold and the rain while poeticizing, etc.

#romanticism #romantics #romantic poetry #english romanticism #literature #english literature #lord byron #percy shelley #history #dark academia #aesthetic #poetry #lit #english #mary shelley #john polidori #william wordsworth #john keats #thomas chatterton #samuel taylor coleridge #william blake #the romantics #geneva squad #funny #meme #lit memes #my writing

[lionofchaeronea]

"I had done a hellish thing" (illustration for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner), Gustave Doré, 1876

#art #art history #Gustave Doré #engraving #illustration #rime of the ancient mariner #Samuel Taylor Coleridge #French art #19th century art

[the-uncanny-dag]

Took me one look at this The Terror poster to know immediately exactly where it's from

To be more specific, this illustration ties to this exact part of the poem:

And through the drifts the snowy clifts

Did send a dismal sheen:

Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken--

The ice was all between.

The ice was here, the ice was there,

The ice was all around:

It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,

Like noises in a swound!

#also the whole downward spiral of horror in both stories starts with a murder of an innocent & ends with a sole survivor living in death #the terror #the terror amc #the rime of the ancient mariner #samuel taylor coleridge #gustave doré

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Illustration for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" – Gustave Doré // The Tortured Poets Department (The Albatross Variant) – Taylor Swift

#re: my shitpost from earlier today lmao #i couldn't help myself #taylor swift eras (art history version) #the albatross #albatross #the tortured poets department #ts ttpd #ttpd #taylor swift #ttpd taylor swift #taylor swift ttpd #rime of the ancient mariner #samuel taylor coleridge #gustave doré #art #art history

[weirdlookindog]

"The game is done! I've won! I've won!"

Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe (1890-1930) - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Illustration from "The Poems of Coleridge", 1907

#gerald fenwick metcalfe #the rime of the ancient mariner #samuel taylor coleridge #life and death #victorian gothic #story illustration #art #illustration

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#the rime of the ancient mariner #samuel taylor coleridge #art #drawing #illustration #books #gerald fenwick metcalfe

[gwydpolls]

Lucian's Library 3

Feel free to suggest never written books you wish you could read.

Option slightly shaved to fit the format.

#Patrick Rothfuss #The Kingkiller Chronicle #The Sandman #Terry Pratchett #The Mystery of Edwin Drood #Charles Dickens #Hilary Mantel #Shirley Jackson #Elizabeth Gaskell #A Mansfield Park #Jane Austen #Patrick O'Brian #Aubrey–Maturin series #C.S. Lewis #Agamemnon #Dorothy L. Sayers #Lord Peter Wimsey #Kubla Khan #Samuel Taylor Coleridge #Christopher Marlowe #Kit Marlow

[the-evil-clergyman]

About, about, in reel and rout, The death-fires danced at night., from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Gustave Doré (1877)

#gustave doré #art #illustration #golden age of illustration #19th century #19th century art #vintage art #vintage illustration #vintage #french art #french artist #books #book illustration #the rime of the ancient mariner #samuel taylor coleridge #poetry #poetry art #classic art

[character-of-all-time]

ROUND 1: CHRISTABEL (christabel) VS MCGRUFF THE CRIME DOG (take a bite out of crime)

#christabel #samuel taylor coleridge #coleridge #mcgruff the crime dog #tournament #now kill #g1

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#coleridge #samuel taylor coleridge #quote #smile #time #moments #heartfelt #kindness #gesture #femme #beauty

[wronghands1]

#water water everywhere #rime of the ancient mariner #samuel taylor coleridge #abridged #literature #books #reading #poetry #poems and poetry #webcomic #wronghands #john atkinson #humor #book summary

[wayti-blog]

What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

S.T. Coleridge (1772-1834)

#life #sleep #dream #awakening #spirit #heaven #spheres #spiritual dimensions #attunement #poetry #literature #inspirational #samuel taylor coleridge #flower #energy #light #love #frequency

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#the rime of the ancient mariner #samuel taylor coleridge #poetry #ballad #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[byronfucks]

National Portrait Gallery, London

Look at them having their own lil corner with all their buddies

#romantic poets #romanticism #english literature #lord byron #geneva squad #percy bysshe shelley #mary shelley #john keats #samuel taylor coleridge #and so on

[weirdlookindog]

"The death-fires danced at night." - S. T. Coleridge

Lancelot Speed - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(The Blue Poetry Book, 1912)

#lancelot speed #the rime of the ancient mariner #samuel taylor coleridge #art #spirits #illustration #the blue poetry book #horror art

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Citrus fruits were used since the dawn of sailing to prevent scurvy, as depicted in Coleridge's "Lime of the Ancient Mariner."

#samuel taylor coleridge #rime of the ancient mariner #unreality