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
Poems are below...
Articles about Samuel Taylor Coleridge or articles that mention Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Here are a few random quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
See also: All Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Go to Quote / Comment
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. Go to Quote / Comment
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. 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
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means. Go to Quote / Comment