life and his loneliness at Christ's Hospital. To Coleridge, travel is related to the idea of solitude and of travel found within many of his early works and later in his Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge was to later emphasises the need of companionship to overcome the loneliness of life. Critical response An article in late 19th-century The University Magazine and Free Review attributed the failure of Coleridge's early poetry to his education. Boyer did teach the students literature and emphasised simplicity within poetry as Coleridge's account of Boyer's correcting of "Dura Navis". However, "It was still the day of mechanical scansion and didactic appreciation" and the education "did not then include Spenser; and not from Boyer would a pupil learn the magic of Milton's and Shakespere's rhythms." A few years later, Walter De la Mare said he believed that the "best line" in the poem "would have been ruined had Coleridge taken" the advice of his schoolmaster. References Sources Ashton, Rosemary. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. De la Mare, Walter. Early One Morning in the Spring. London: Faber & Faber, 1935. Kneale, J. Douglas. Romantic Aversions. Ithaca: McGill-Queen's Press, 1999. Robertson, John and Singer, G. Astor. The University Magazine and Free Review. S. Sonnenschein, 1894. Sampson, George (editor). Biographia Literaria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920. Sarker, Sunil. S. T. Coleridge. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2001. Werkmeister, Lucyle. "The Early Coleridge: His 'Rage for Metaphysics'" Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 54, No. 2 (April 1961): 99–123. Yarlott, Geoffrey. Coleridge and the Abyssinian Maid. London: Methuen 1967. Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1787 poems British poems