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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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From: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Date: 20070301
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(born Oct. 21, 1772, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, Eng.—died July 25, 1834, Highgate, near London) English poet, critic, and philosopher. Coleridge studied at the University of Cambridge, where he became closely associated with Robert Southey . In his poetry he perfected a sensuous lyricism that was echoed by many later poets. Lyrical Ballads (1798; with William Wordsworth ), containing the famous “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Frost at Midnight,” heralded the beginning of English Romanticism . Other poems in the “fantastical” style of the ...

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