Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1772

Place of Birth: Ottery St Mary, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Jul-1834

Profession: writer, poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
  • He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.
  • He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria.
  • His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture.
  • Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief.
  • He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and on American transcendentalism. Throughout his adult life Coleridge had crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it has been speculated that he had bipolar disorder, which had not been defined during his lifetime.
  • He was physically unhealthy, which may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses.
  • He was treated for these conditions with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.

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