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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Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom. Go to Quote / Comment
my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of Life. Go to Quote / Comment
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Go to Quote / Comment
I could not know Whether I suffered, or I did:... Go to Quote / Comment
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. Go to Quote / Comment