Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 🇬🇧

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Known as "Philosopher-Poet of High Romanticism / Creator of The Ancient Mariner")
English Romantic Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher, Theologian
Born 21 October 1772 🇬🇧 Ottery St Mary (Devon), Great Britain
Passed Away 25 July 1834 Highgate (London), Great Britain
Lifespan 61 years old
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"Water, water, everywhere, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink. (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner). He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small."

Archival Overview

Visionary English Romantic poet, philosopher, and critic who co-founded the Romantic movement with Wordsworth, creating hallucinated supernatural masterworks—The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel.

Biographical Record

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), son of a Devonshire vicar, possessed one of the most voracious, incandescent philosophical minds of his era. Teaming up with William Wordsworth in Somerset in 1797, Coleridge took charge of the supernatural and exotic domains in their joint revolutionary venture, Lyrical Ballads (1798).

His contributions included The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, recounting the curse and spiritual redemption of a sailor who shoots an albatross, giving world culture idioms like 'an albatross around one's neck' and 'Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink'. His opium-fueled dream vision Kubla Khan, interrupted by the infamous 'person from Porlock', remains an immortal monument to poetic reverie. In his critical tour de force Biographia Literaria (1817), Coleridge coined the phrase 'willing suspension of disbelief', establishing the foundational criteria of modern literary theory.

Key Life Milestones

1798 CE

Publication of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Published his supernatural ballad of sin and redemption, establishing a cornerstone of world Romantic literature.

1817 CE

Publication of Biographia Literaria & Coining 'Willing Suspension of Disbelief'

Published his landmark work of literary aesthetics, formulating the definitive theory of the primary imagination.

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Final Resting Place

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St Michael's Church (Crypt Vault, Highgate)
Highgate (London), Great Britain
GPS: 51.5714, -0.1506
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