Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Wikipedia Coleridge wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and "Kubla Khan", as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria His critical works were highly influential, especially in relation to William Shakespeare, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking cultures
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Famous Works, Poems, Cause of Death, Books . . . Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher known for Lyrical Ballads, written with William Wordsworth, and Biographia Literaria (1817), the most significant work of general literary criticism produced in the English Romantic period
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Poetry Foundation Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse
The Best Coleridge Poems Everyone Should Read Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the leading English Romantic poets, whose Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 collection Coleridge co-authored with Wordsworth, became a founding-text for English Romanticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biography - life, childhood, death, wife . . . Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a major poet of the English Romantic period, a literary movement characterized by imagination, passion, and the supernatural He is also noted for his works on literature, religion, and the organization of society
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Biography Coleridge's powerful representation of psychological obsession and remorse, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, was the poem chosen to open the Lyrical Ballads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | British Literature Wiki (1772-1834) As a child, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was described as a dreamer He was allegedly quite enthusiastic and interested in his surroundings, and very eager to learn After his father’s death, he was sent to school in London He eventually studied at Cambridge, and was an accomplished scholar
About Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Academy of American Poets Coleridge, whose early work was celebratory and conventional, began writing in a more natural style In his “conversation poems,” such as “The Eolian Harp” and “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” Coleridge used his intimate friends and their experiences as subjects