Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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born

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

died

July 25, 1834

gender

male

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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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.

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	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gustave Doré 3.85 avg rating — 10,447 ratings — published 1798 — 131 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Keach (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 1,101 ratings — published 1868 — 35 editions	My rating:
	Kubla Khan 4.01 avg rating — 193 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan and Christabel (1914) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Tuley Francis Huntington (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Coleridge's Poetry and Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi (Editor), Paul Magnuson (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1895 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell (Editor), B. Winer (Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1926 — 57 editions	My rating:
	The Major Works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H.J. Jackson (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Portable Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ivor A. Richards (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4.06 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Richard Holmes (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1959 — 38 editions	My rating:

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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Keach (Editor)

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Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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

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

tags: remaining-silent , reticence , wisdom

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“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 14: Table Talk.

tags: definitions , expression , language , poetry , power-of-words , style

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