Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's body is rediscovered in 17th century wine cellar which is [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | APril 12, 2018 | Laura Forsyth

[Desparado]

Sorry. I guess that was DeQuincy actually.

[WayneS]

Thank you. I was hoping someone would post that.

[Portcall24]

Ha! I always loved that scene. Thanks for reminding me. Seriously, I know an AF fighter pilot who spent 7 years as POW. He knew the entire poem from high school and shared it with the others by tapping on the wall.

[stylecouncilor]

Ping

[onedoug]

‘Get that poor man to a cemetery right away!’

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks C19fan. I tried to tackle his "Rime" when in high school, seemed like a perfect fit at the time, couldn't get into it, but here's an online version of an old engram from that time:

Mary Shelley grew up with the influence of Coleridge through her father who often disagreed with his views, but respected the man, often invited him into their home. It is said that Mary Shelley hid behind a couch and listened to Coleridge reciting his famous poem, and that is why it is one of her influences throughout Frankenstein. Throughout his life, Coleridge was continuously ill, mentally and physically and became addicted to opium as an escape from his diseased body. He died of heart failure in 1834.

Mary Shelley Wiki, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

[SunkenCiv]

The other engram pertains to Coleridge’s own plagiarisms.

The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0199229538

The attack on Coleridge’s plagiarism commenced in 1840 with James Frederick
Ferrier, who discovered Coleridge’s use of passages from Friedrich Schelling
while he was busily borrowing from the same source in his ‘The Philosophy of
Consciousness’ (1838/9)...

Less inflammatory:

The Road To Xanadu
by John Livingston Lowes
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.264298

[SunkenCiv]

he died at the age of 61 in July 1834. Coleridge was once able to see the bright red door of the new church from his last home across the green, where he stayed with a doctor he hoped could cure him. This house is now owned by the model Kate Moss. He was then buried in the nearby chapel of Highgate school but in 1961 there was concern that Coleridge's vault had become derelict.

It doesn't say that.

[Hieronymus]

Yes it does. There is a blue box after your excerpt which gives biographical and literary details, and on the other side of the box the article continues the thread that was being followed where your excerpt ends:

Following an international fundraising appeal the coffins were then moved to St Michael’s but as people died or moved away from the parish, the exact location of the coffins was forgotten, until a recent excavation revealed the entrance to the wine vault.

[oldasrocks]

I’m more concerned to know if there was any good old wine left in the cellar.

[Redcitizen]

In before the mention of the Iron Maiden song of the same name.

[deadrock]

A band getting kids hooked on literature. What in the world...

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, sorry, I don’t see it here, probably something the ancient software and hardware doesn’t support.

[gleeaikin]

Water water everywhere and all the boards did shrink.

I wonder if he could have suffered from congenital syphilis or perhaps adult onset.

[Portcall24]

He was physically unhealthy, which may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these conditions with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.