Short answers, pulled from the story.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on the 21st of October 1772 in the quiet town of Ottery St Mary. He lived there until the age of six before moving to a world where the boundary between the living and the dead was terrifyingly thin.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed to have composed two to three hundred lines of Kubla Khan in 1797 while living in Nether Stowey, Somerset, but a visitor from Porlock interrupted him. When he returned to writing, the rest of the poem had vanished from his memory, leaving only the famous opening stanzas.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge died on the 25th of July 1834 while living in the Highgate homes of the physician James Gillman. He resided there from 1816 until his death, using the house as a sanctuary to manage his addiction to opium and continue writing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge delivered his lecture on Hamlet on the 2nd of January 1812 in London. This lecture is considered the best of his lectures and has influenced Hamlet studies ever since.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Conversation Poems represent a unique form of poetry that blends the personal with the philosophical to explore the depths of consciousness. These poems include The Eolian Harp, Frost at Midnight, and Dejection: An Ode, and they are characterized by their use of blank verse.