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Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( / ˈkoʊlərɪdʒ / KOH-lə-rij; [1] 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.
Jul 21, 2024 · Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher. His Lyrical Ballads, written with William Wordsworth, heralded the English Romantic movement, and his Biographia Literaria (1817) is the most significant work of general literary criticism produced in the English Romantic.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an influential 18th-century figure in English literature and a leading poet of the Romantic era. His introspective works pushed the boundaries of Romantic poetry.
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the British Romantic movement, was born on October 21, 1772, in Devonshire, England. His father, a vicar of a parish and master of a grammar school, married twice and had fourteen children.
Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (/ ˌ k ʊ b l ə ˈ k ɑː n /) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816.It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Shangdu, the summer capital of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China founded by Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (born Oct. 21, 1772, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, Eng.—died July 25, 1834, Highgate, near London), English poet, critic, and philosopher. Coleridge studied at the University of Cambridge, where he became closely associated with Robert Southey.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772 –. 1834. Or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan. A stately pleasure dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran. Through caverns measureless to man.
Remembered now mostly for his opium intake and friendship with William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is responsible for some of the best-known poems in the English language.
