Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
He wrote the poems ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria, a volume composed of 23 chapters of autobiographical notes and dissertations on various subjects, including some incisive literary theory and criticism. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential.
Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in the country town of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England. Samuel's father, the Reverend John Coleridge (1718–1781), was a well-respected vicar of the parish and headmaster of Henry VIII's Free Grammar School at Ottery. After John Coleridge died in 1781, 8-year-old Samuel was sent to Christ's Hospital, a charity school founded in the 16th century in Greyfriars, London, where he remained throughout his childhood, studying and writing poetry. At that school Coleridge became friends with Charles Lamb. From 1791 until 1794, Coleridge attended Jesus College, Cambridge.
In 1795, Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy. Besides the Rime of The Ancient Mariner, he composed the symbolic poem Kubla Khan and the first part of the narrative poem Christabel. In 1798, Coleridge and Wordsworth published a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, which proved to be the starting point for the English romantic age.
He died in Highgate, London on 25 July 1834 as a result of heart failure compounded by a lung disorder.
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