9. What can you say of his religious faith? III, 91. STYLE AND WORKS 1. What poets constituted the "Lake School," and from what lakes was the term derived? 2. Name his three principal poems. 3. What can you say as to the volume of his poetry? 4. Between what years was most of it written? 5. Are his other works--philosophical, religious, and critical--quoted to-day? 6. In what one element does Coleridge outdistance the other poets of his day? 7. Read the poems by Wordsworth, XII, 332-339; these were published in the volume, "Lyrical Ballads," with "The Ancient Mariner"; how are they characteristic of Romanticism? 8. "Kubla Khan," like Poe's "Raven," has frequently been attributed to an opium vision. This cannot be proved, but it is well known that he dreamed these lines and many more which he forgot before he could write them down. In character it is closely akin to De Quincey's account of opium dreams, IV, 171 ff. "THE ANCIENT MARINER" 1. How old was Coleridge when he wrote the poem? 2. What led him to write it? 3. In writing the poem did Coleridge draw his inspiration from classical, medieval, or modern sources? 4. Where is the scene laid? 5. What is the purpose of the rubrics or running commentary in the margin? 6. Why is the wedding guest introduced, and what is the purpose of the constant interruptions in the narrative? 7. Look up the term "albatross" in reference works. 8. What punishment was inflicted on the Ancient Mariner for having shot the Albatross? 9. What broke the spell which had been cast upon him? 10. What would the repeated allusion to the mariner's "glittering eye," seem to indicate? 11. The moral which this tale is supposed to teach? FOR REFERENCE "Coleridge" ("Bell's Miniature Series.")--GARNETT. "Coleridge" ("Lives of Famous Poets.")--ROSSETTI. "Selected Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge."--GEORGE. "S. T. Coleridge; a Narrative of the Events of his Life."--CAMPBELL. "Selections from the Poets; Coleridge."--LANG. "Table Talk" ("Bohn's Standard Library")--Ed. ASHE. GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) George Gordon, sixth Lord Byron, was born in London. His father, a profligate captain of the guards, having squandered most of his wife's property, she parted from him, retiring on a small income to Aberdeen, Scotland. In his eleventh year, however, the son inherited the title and estate of his grand-uncle, and the mother and son left Scotland and settled down at Newstead Abbey, near Nottingham, in Sherwood Forest. Byron prepared for the university at Harrow and then went to Cambridge, where he published "Hours of Idleness," a volume of verse of no merit that brought down the unduly savage review of Brougham, to which Byron replied anonymously with "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," a dashing satire that he later suppressed, when he became a friend of many whom he there held up to ridicule.