Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The story of Biographia Literaria begins in a conversation between two friends, Wordsworth (Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850) and Coleridge (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834), both settled in the Lake District after their return from Germany in 1799. They were debating what form a second edition of the Lyrical Ballads should take to replace the exhausted edition of 1798.--The Reading Warehouse.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was the master impresario of English Romanticism, an enormously erudite and tireless critic, lecturer, and polemicist who almost single-handedly created the intellectual climate in which the Romantic movement was received and understood. He was also, in poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan, the most uncanny, surreal, and startling of the great English poets.