COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772 - 1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an influential

English poet, philosopher, and essayist. Born on October 21, 1772, Coleridge was
educated at London's Christ's Hospital before entering Cambridge. He moved to
Somerset in 1797 where he quickly became close friends with the poet William
Wordsworth. The two collaborated to compose the Lyrical Ballads, for which
Coleridge contributed his poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and
Kubla Khan. His later life was constrained by his addiction to the drug
opium. Nevertheless, Coleridge still found the strength to write the literary
classics, Dejection: An Ode, and Biographia Literaria. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
died on July 25, 1834.

Literature: Christabel (1798), Kubla Kahn (1798), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(1798).