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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Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Go to Quote / Comment
Friendship is like a sheltering tree. Go to Quote / Comment
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; --poetry = the best words in the best order. Go to Quote / Comment
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. Go to Quote / Comment
How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance! Go to Quote / Comment