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. Did you know that STC joined the British cavalry under the name Silas Tomkyn Comberback? This didn't work out too well because of his tendency to fall off his horse. See Tom Clark's blog for Coleridge's "Thius Lime Tree Bower My Prison," with beautiful illustrative photographs -- DL
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Yes,and he was so awkward on horseback that at one point he was considered as being unfit for service. He spent his final days as a Dragoon nursing a fellow comrade back to health while his brother George and several friends wrote letters to the Commander to persuade him that he was a runaway from Cambridge, his true name being Samuel Taylor Coleridge. After much wrangling he was finally discharged under the guise that he was insane. He swiftly returned to his studies.
Posted by: John Severino | May 03, 2011 at 07:22 AM