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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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. Go to Quote / Comment
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. Go to Quote / Comment
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. Go to Quote / Comment
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. Go to Quote / Comment
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel. Go to Quote / Comment