Samuel Taylor Coleridge





Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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born
in Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, England, The United Kingdom
October 21, 1772

died
July 25, 1834

gender
male

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.


Average rating: 3.90 · 30,742 ratings · 643 reviews · 198 distinct works · Similar authors
The Rime of the Ancient Mar...
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 19,772 ratings — published 1798 — 108 editions
The Complete Poems
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 2,594 ratings — published 1907 — 54 editions
The Rime of the Ancient Mar...
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 1,206 ratings12 editions
Kubla Khan
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 591 ratings2 editions
Coleridge's Poetry and Prose
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 1895 — 6 editions
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner...
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
Biographia Literaria: Biogr...
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1906 — 39 editions
The Major Works
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
Selected Poems
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1959 — 35 editions
Works of Samuel Taylor Cole...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
More books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge…
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains, Vol. 1

“What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems

“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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