Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Posted by Tel on April 5, 2009
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
English Poet and Critic, Famous for Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and critic, is best remembered for his poems “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Kubla Khan” and “Christabel.” He was a pioneer of the Romantic movement in English poetry.
A son of a clergyman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devonshire on October 21, 1772, in the rural southwest of England. At school in London he made friends with Charles Lamb. His early years were not happy. At Cambridge University he met the poet Robert Southey, with whom he planned to establish an ideal community in Pennsylvania.
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