The Beatles were one of the most successful and influential rock bands of the 20th century. The group was formed by the "Fab Four": John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals), and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). From Liverpool to Global Domination Formed in Liverpool in 1960, they dominated the British and international charts from 1962 to 1970. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity sparked a global phenomenon known as "Beatlemania." As their music grew in sophistication—led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney—the band evolved from pop idols into the embodiment of the 1960s counterculture. They experimented with psychedelia, Indian classical music, and studio techniques that changed the face of the recording industry forever. A Prolific Legacy The Beatles wrote over 200 songs (including 186 original compositions released during their active years). Their catalog includes timeless mast...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devon in 1772.
When he was eight his father died and he was ent to Christ's Hospital, a charity school in London.
In 1791 he attended Cambridge University and left it in 1794 without graduating.
In 1797 Coleridge settled at Somerset where William Wordsworth lived.
This was the beginning of the intellectual collaboration between the two poets that produced Lyrical Ballads, a collection which included Coleridge's most famous poem: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The years 1799-1810, when the two poets settled in the Lake District, were full of frustration for Coleridge to the point that he took large quantities of opium and quarelled with Wordsworth.
He died in 1834.
Coleridge's poems, referred to as the "demonic poems", share the presence of the supernatural in various forms. They are all dreams of haunted souls, and behind their exotic richness and half-magical lands, we sense that mysterious forces are at play, which conduct the choices of men.
These poems maybe seen as nightmares of passivity: the characters don't act but is acted upon.
Coleridge is the perfect example of a complex Romantic personality: an unfulfilled genius who never fully realized his potential in his poems.
Against the Empiricism, he held views of the creative mind as capable of recreating the world of the senses.
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