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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Quote Left Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor. Quote Right
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Quote Left Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Quote Right
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Quote Left Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. Quote Right
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Quote Left What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. Quote Right
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Quote Left There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. Quote Right
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