The English author Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a major poet of the romantic movement. He is also noted for his prose works on literature, religion, and the organization of society. Born on Oct. 21, 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a poet, philosopher, and literary critic whose writings have been enormously influential in the development of modern thought. In his own lifetime, Coleridge was renowned throughout Britain and Europe as one of the Lake...

Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Active in the wake of the French Revolution as a dissenting pamphleteer...

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772–1834), English Romantic poet, literary critic, journalist, philosopher, and religious thinker. With William Wordsworth, Coleridge helped inaugurate the Romantic era with the publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798). A...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) (pronounced /ˈkoʊlərɪdʒ/ or /ˈkoʊlrɪdʒ/) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic...

Would we regard Samuel Taylor Coleridge differently if he had not lived until 1834, but had perished instead three decades earlier on his second trip to Europe? Of course! argues Richard Holmes in Coleridge.- Early Visions viking, 409 pp., $19.95). By the time...

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol. 12. Marginalia, IV. Pamphlets to Shakespeare. Ed. by H. J. Jackson and George Whalley. (Bollingen Series, LXXV) Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999. xxiv+870 pp. $150; [pound]99.50. The latest volume in the magnificent...

I read pretty much all of At Large and At Small in one sitting, slightly hung over, lying around in bed on a Saturday morning. When I’m reading a collection of essays by a pronounced journalist (Fadiman being the former editor of The American Scholar),...

In the following essay, Paul-Emile discusses Samuel Taylor Coleridge's transformation from liberal abolitionist to a conservative wary of emancipation's effect on the British social hierarchy.

Discusses four of Coleridge's poems. Examines the theme of imaginative journeys in each poem. Whether the journey be physical, emotional, one of intellectual discovery or pure imagination, they all hold something in common.

Coleridges Attraction to the Supernatural

Essay discusses the imagination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.