Europe's tragedy, andEurope's tragedian Nov 17, 2009
His apostle to the Anglo-Saxons was the great Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who read his first play The Robbers in 1794 and wrote to Robert Southey: "My God! Southey! Who is this Schiller? This Convulser of the Heart? Did he write his Tragedy amid the yelling of Fiends?" Coleridge penned a rapturous sonnet to Schiller which may not rank among his best work. Ah. (Asia Times Online)
Kublai Khan, Maker of Modern China ... Nov 6, 2009
Khan s pleasure dome, a figment of the drug- driven imagination of British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was probably the very least of his achievements as Man s biography asserts. The biggest of these is also the most ironic Khan s creation of what was and is the modern Chinese state. (Suite101.com)
If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good? Nov 1, 2009
"Lady Grinning Soul," a spooky song on that album, is a Romantic masterpiece in the dark artistic line of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I am skeptical about any influence of Bowie on Madonna, however. (Salon)
Rose: Miracle Mets showed the way Oct 17, 2009
We listened to the end of that game in his class with one stipulation -- that as soon as it ended, we were to turn off the radios and get back to reading the epic poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It might be considered a literary classic, but to a 15 year old delirious over the Mets having just won the World Series, it was a terrible segue. (MLB.com -- NY Mets Mets)
Not Exactly Xanadu Sep 24, 2009
Don;t know whether a descendant of Samuel Taylor Coleridge was among the crowd of 30,000 with $29 Party Passes trying to gain a glimpse of Cowboys; owner Jerry Jones;s modern-day Xanadu, but the Nielsen count should have clicked higher since they apparently only got to watch the game on the 60-yard-long Mitsubishi video board. Oops: that;s out-of-home viewing, so it wouldn;t count among the Nielsens. (Multichannel News)
Artists answer St. Johns River call Sep 22, 2009
Samuel Taylor Coleridge read Bartram's account and was inspired to write Kubla Khan. Nearly 200 years later, Bartram inspired O'Connor to take a closer look at the St. Johns. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Toyota Becomes First Exclusive Auto Sponsor on EBay Sep 14, 2009
" Nissan worked directly with eBay last year, using print ads to urge consumers to visit eBay Motors and check out a make-believe auction for a ride in a Nissan Altima. Those who followed through found the fake auction, as well as links to real Nissan dealers and to Nissan-brand collectible items being sold on the site. MOST POPULAR - BUSINESS Inside NYTimes.com A new father takes solace in the dark musings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Doug Glanville discusses why athletes feel compelled to be... (Yahoo News -- Electronic Commerce)
North Fork Agrees to Buy GreenPoint for $6.3 Billion Sep 14, 2009
"I'm not sure the deposit drain people are anticipating is imminent,'' he said. Mr. Kanas, 57, will remain chief executive of the combined company and GreenPoint's chief executive, Thomas S. Johnson, 63, will become a director. Bharat B. Bhatt, currently president and chief operating officer of GreenPoint, will be joining the senior management team of North Fork as senior executive vice president and will also become a director. North Fork was advised on the purchase by Sandler O'Neill &... (Yahoo News -- Banking & Financial Services)
Techniques of Best-selling Writers Aug 19, 2009
In other words, a skilled writer can use words in such a way that readers willingly suspend their disbelief (a phrase coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge); and when readers enter this state of mind, they can believe the unbelievable and accept as real what is not real at all but merely fiction. Denotation and Connotation. (Suite101.com)
Know The Coach - Grover Hinsdale Aug 13, 2009
Talent I'd like to have: sing / play piano Favorite meal: steak and potato Favorite athletes to watch in other sports: Calvin Johnson One coaching peer I truly respect: Buddy Fowlkes My heroes: Roy Rogers / thereafter - my parents My bucket list: Take my wife to Italy / Fly fish throughout Alaska My motto: borrowed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events.... and in today already walks tomorrow.". Know The Coach Swimming g head coach Golf... (Ramblinwreck.com)
A psychiatrist offers insights on Charlie Chaplin Aug 2, 2009
In addition to the Chaplin book, he s written psychobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. But even though hundreds of books have been written about Chaplin, Weissman still found plenty of material to mine. (Boston Globe)
Science Feels Sexy in The Age of Wonder Jul 28, 2009
" Eventually, after 27 minutes aloft, they landed safely. D'Arlandes according to his own account threw himself out onto the grass. Piltre just stood there. "We had enough fuel to fly for an hour," he said sadly. The crowd grabbed his green coat and tore it to pieces for souvenirs. He was an instant 18th century rock star. This anecdote appears in The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes (Pantheon; 576 pages), which is the most flat-out fascinating book so far this year. You wouldn't get that from... (Time.com)
Why Keats and Wordsworth Were So Stoked About Science Jul 20, 2009
"The perception of truth is almost always as simple a feeling as the perception of beauty," he wrote, "and the genius of Newton, of Shakespeare, of Michael Angelo, and of Handel, are not very remote in character from each other. Imagination, as well as reason, is necessary to perfection in the philosophic mind." It is the kind of observation one might expect from the polymath Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Davy's close friend. In a letter to Davy in 1800, Coleridge speculated on the affinity between... (Slate)
Top 8 Ways Laziness Costs You Money Jun 27, 2009
Brewer, abolitionist, social reformer and English Member of Parliament Sir Thomas Buxton said, "Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains." Poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge had an even darker take on the avoidance of work: "The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.". Being lazy could cost you some serious dough. (ABC News)
Four scenarios for next season of Lost Jun 16, 2009
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, circa 1794, from his review of The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, the most popular novelist of her day. Welcome. (MSNBC -- News)
What Would Burke Do? Apr 28, 2009
For Burke and other high church conservatives such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Russell Kirk, politics does have limited substantial ends. But those ends are more open than liberal or libertarian critics of conservatism deign to acknowledge. (The American Conservative)
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When English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge penned "Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink" more than 200 years ago, he could not possibly have foreseen how aptly this now-famous line might describe the polar plain where NASA's Phoenix spacecraft touched down last year. The Robotic Arm Camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander captured this image underneath the lander, showing smooth surfaces cleared from overlying soil by the rocket exhaust during landing. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
O-T Oxford and Cambridge Writers an... Mar 23, 2009
John s College), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Jesus College) and lord Byron (Trinity College). Percy Shelley began his studies at University College, Oxford, and, just as many of the Romantics experimented with hallucinating drugs, the Romantic writer of a work about the effects of opium, Thomas de Quincey started at Worchester College, Oxford. (Suite101.com)
M-Z Essential 1700s and 1800s Briti... Mar 22, 2009
Although Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) is not a well known name, he was one of the Lake School, which acquired its name from the Lake District, where several figures and founders of the Romantic Movement, such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth lived. Friends with both Coleridge and Wordsworth, Thomas de Quincy made his home at Dove Cottage, the former house of Wordsworth. (Suite101.com)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein & the Su... Mar 3, 2009
Later, Shelley claimed that Byron s reading of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Cristabel had brought to mind the image of a woman with eyes instead of nipples, which horrified him. Setting to Work. (Suite101.com)
The albatross: flying high, again... Feb 23, 2009
Ever since Samuel Taylor Coleridge first wrote of the fate endured by the ancient mariner who shot the albatross, the majestic bird has been a sight to behold, as well as a feared omen ... An albatross is the central emblem in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a metaphor used in Charles Baudelaire s poetry. (Independent)
* Britons at war over dog fouling Feb 15, 2009
And nowhere X or at least, nowhere Ive been recently X is that more evident than in the small and otherwise pretty tranquil east Devon town of Ottery St Mary in southwest England, birthplace of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and home of the Night of the Flaming Tar Barrels (I hadnt heard of it either, but the photos look spectacular). In the dog poo war, Ottery is something of a frontline town, with serious talk right now of banning dogs from its parks. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
