Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English writer of the Romantic Era. His most notable work is the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, published in 1798 in the collection Lyrical Ballads. This collection is one of the earliest examples of Romantic poetry in England, and was a selection of poems by Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

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• Lifetime: 21 October 1772 • 25 July 1834
• Main form: Poetry
• Literary movement: He is a major figure in Romanticism
• Mid-2026 popularity rank: --

"Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."