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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Go to Quote / Comment
O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live: Go to Quote / Comment
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. Go to Quote / Comment
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Go to Quote / Comment
O! the one Life within us and abroad, Go to Quote / Comment