The Literature Network

Good night

Content courtesy of

From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080310
Author:

LEADING ARTICLE

SLEEP

From Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Lennon, our bards have made a pretty good job of articulating the joys of sleep. But as a nation, it has to be said that we've made a pretty poor fist of acting on their encomia to that blissful state. If sleep is "a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole", why are we "still yawning" in the middle of the afternoon? A survey has discovered that we are not sleeping enough here in Britain. More than two-thirds of those questioned said they were not getting the recommended eight hours of sleep a night. This must come into that bulging ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Other Articles on Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Works of Samuel T. Coleridge: The Life Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge's Writings, Volume 4: On Religion and Psychology.(Book Review)

AT LARGE AND AT SMALL.(A biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Shakespeare, Coleridge, intellecturition.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge's criticism of William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)

Coleridge in the cavalry. (poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

On Coleridge as translator of Faustus: from the German of Goethe.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(Critical essay)

`Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems,' edited by Richard Holmes Penguin;.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge.(Brief article)(Book review)

Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Find More Articles

About Our Articles: We've partnered with Highbeam Research to provide these article excerpts for your research needs. However, due to copyright laws, we cannot publish the whole article. To view these articles in full length you'll need to use the link above to access the free trial at Highbeam.