Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism.. English poet
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! Go to Quote / Comment
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Go to Quote / Comment
my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of Life. Go to Quote / Comment
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. Go to Quote / Comment
O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live: Go to Quote / Comment