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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 tenth...

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 Poets,...

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 and...

In the following excerpt, McGann argues that Coleridge's revisions of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" reflect the author's evolving theory of literary criticism, which derived from Biblical analysis. According to McGann, the marginal glosses added to the 1817 version of the poem, in particular, create the effect of a work of great antiquity that has passed through various versions and redactions.

In the following essay, McEathron examines Shelley's “A Vision of the Sea” as it relates to Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, focusing particularly on how the former poem articulates Shelley's beliefs about both death and humanity's spiritual isolation.

The Road to Xanadu is considered the foundation of serious modern study of Coleridge's poetry. In the following excerpt, the critic confirms the poet's own assessment of "The Ancient Mariner" as a "work of pure imagination." Lowes regards the moral of the poem not as an intentional, didactic message but as one element in a work unified by Coleridge's "constructive imagination. "

Describes how Samuel Taylor Coleridge explores the importance of the journeying process in his poetry. Explores how through works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "This Lime- Tree Bower My Prison", he conducts his exploration of the journeying process on several levels varying in depth and complexity.

Essay describes how an imaginative journey is able to alter an our perception and illuminate our understanding of the world and our place within it. It uses four of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Frost at Midnight", "Kubla Khan" and "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison."

Compares Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Samuel Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto III. Describes how by comparing the works, one can identify the technical differences in each writer's position dealing with the issue of the writer versus the persona.