... 's marriage. Coleridge eventually met William Woodsworth in 1795, and the two became lifelong friends. They published a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads (1798) that became a staple in English poetry. It contained great works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."" The years of 1797 and 1798 were the most prosperous of his life. Such poems as "Kubla Khan,"" "Frost at Midnight,"" and " The Nightingale,"" were published and considered his top "conversational- poems ... . In the fall of 1798, he went with Woodsworth to Germany, where his son died of a reaction to a smallpox vaccina...

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... wholeness; however, most critics agree that although it is written as a fragment, the piece as a whole is complete in meaning. One widely accepted analysis states that the "Kubla Khan" is nothing more than a fragment. It is known that Coleridge never wrote a piece that had any substantial length except for the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," which could be taken to mean that he was unable to complete a work ... . Coleridge himself initially subtitled the poem "A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment," which further instates the poem as being incomplete (Mahony 2). There is a significant differenc...

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