Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
Author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
About the Author
Born in Ottery St. Mary, England, in 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge studied revolutionary ideas at Cambridge before leaving to enlist in the Dragoons. After his plans to start a communist society in the United States with his friend Robert Southey, later named poet laureate of England, were botched, show more Coleridge instead turned his attention to teaching and journalism in Bristol. Coleridge married Southey's sister-in-law Sara Fricker, and they moved to Nether Stowey, where they became close friends with William and Dorothy Wordsworth. From this friendship a new poetry emerged, one that focused on Neoclassic artificiality. In later years, their relationship became strained, partly due to Coleridge's moral collapse brought on by opium use, but more importantly because of his rejection of Wordworth's animistic views of nature. In 1809, Coleridge began a weekly paper, The Friend, and settled in London, writing and lecturing. In 1816, he published Kubla Kahn. Coleridge reported that he composed this brief fragment, considered by many to be one of the best poems ever written lyrically and metrically, while under the influence of opium, and that he mentally lost the remainder of the poem when he roused himself to answer an ill-timed knock at his door. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and his sonnet Ozymandias are all respected as inventive and widely influential Romantic pieces. Coleridge's prose works, especially Biographia Literaria, were also broadly read in his day. Coleridge died in 1834. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge among the lakes & mountains: from his notebooks, letters and poems 1794-1804 (1991) 152 copies
Coleridge's Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare and Some Other Old Poets and Dramatists (1907) 22 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 : Lectures, 1795 : On Politics and Religion (1971) 18 copies
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and the Conversation Poems (2009) 16 copies
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner: An Experimental Edition of Texts and Revisions 1798-1828 (Jungian Classics Series) (1919) 14 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 10 : On the Constitution of the Church and State (1976) 14 copies
William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge: Selected critical essays / edited by Thomas M. Raysor (Crofts classics) (1958) 13 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3 : Essays on His Times in The Morning Post and The Courier (3… (1975) 12 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 12 : Marginalia : Part 1, Abbt to Byfield (1980) 12 copies
The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats : complete in one volume (1838) — Author — 11 copies
La Ballade du Vieux Marin et autres poèmes : Suivi d'extraits de l'Autobiographie littéraire,… (2007) 11 copies
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems of the Romatic Era: Literary Touchstone Classic (2006) 11 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 16 : Poetical Works: Part 1. Poems (Reading Text) (2001) 9 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 16 : Poetical Works: Part 2. Poems (Variorum Text) (2001) 9 copies
Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, &c. (1884) 9 copies
Poesie e prose 8 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 16 : Poetical Works: Part 3. Plays (Two Volume Set) (2001) 8 copies
The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters… (2007) 8 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 12 : Marginalia : Part 2, Camden to Hutton (1985) — Author — 6 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 5 : Lectures 1808-1819 : On Literature (2 Volume Set) (1987) 6 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 12 : Marginalia : Part 6. Valckenaer to Zwick (2001) 6 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 12 : Marginalia : Part 3, Irving to Oxlee (1992) 5 copies
Coleridge poetry 5 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 11: Shorter Works and Fragments - Volume II (1995) 5 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 11: Shorter Works and Fragments - Volume I (2019) 5 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 12 : Marginalia : Part 5, Sherlock to Unidentified (Bollingen… (1999) 5 copies
The Poetical Works of S T Coleridge 4 copies
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Including his Dramatic Writings. (1912) — Author — 4 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3 : Essays on His Times in The Morning Post and The Courier… (1978) 4 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 12 : Marginalia : Part 4, Pamphlets to Shakespeare (1998) 4 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3 : Essays on His Times in The Morning Post and The Courier… (1971) 4 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 11 : Shorter Works and Fragments (2 Volume Set) (1995) 4 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 5 : Lectures 1808-1819 : On Literature (Volume 1 of 2) (1987) 4 copies
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 3 : Essays on His Times in The Morning Post and The Courier… (1978) 4 copies
Kubla Khan y otros poemas / Kubla Khan and Other Poems: Antologia / Anthology (Spanish Edition) (2009) 4 copies
Wordsworth & Coleridge 3 copies
Gustave Dore Classics: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: 43 Gustave Dore Illustrations (2019) 3 copies
The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Including poems and versions of Poems Now Published for the first Time Edited with… (1912) 2 copies
Notes on English divines (vol 2) 2 copies
Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Volume I 1785-1800 (Oxford Scholarly Classics) (2000) 2 copies
Verse and Prose 2 copies
Coleridge's Poems 2 copies
"Work Without Hope" 2 copies
Coleridge: Select Poems 2 copies
Robinson Crusoe / The Raft / The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Contributor — 2 copies
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the ancient mariner: With text of the poem plus reproductions of the three great… (1994) 2 copies
Letter 116 to Thomas Wedgewood 2 copies
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 2 copies
Poemetti e liriche 2 copies
Christabel Part I 1 copy
SELECTED POETRY AND PROSE OF COLERIDGE. Edited, with introduction, by Donald A. Stauffer. ML #279. 1 copy
Coleridge's poems 1 copy
Poesie 1 copy
Kublah Khan 1 copy
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 12: Marginalia IV - Pamphlets to Shakespeare (2019) 1 copy
“The Eolian Harp” 1 copy
"Stikhi" 1 copy
Maynards English Classic Series the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Maynards English Classic Series, No. 17) (1897) 1 copy
“Frost at Night” 1 copy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Yvonne Bonnamy, Richard Burton, William Devlin & John Neville 1 copy
Ballata del Vecchio Marinaio 1 copy
Christabel and the Lyrical and Imaginative Poems of S. T. Coleridge, with Essays By Algernon Swinburne (1869) 1 copy
Instructor Literature Series No. 126C: the Rime of the Ancient Mariner with introduction and notes 1 copy
Eclectic English classics 1 copy
“To William Wordsworth” 1 copy
Select Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; arranged in chronological order with introduction and notes 1 copy
He Prayeth Well 1 copy
Time, Real and Imaginary 1 copy
Selected Works 1 copy
A Lay Sermon, Addressed To The Higher And Middle Classes, On The Existing Distresses And Discontents 1 copy
ANTOLOGÍA POÉTICA 1 copy
İHTİYAR DENİZCİNİN EZGİSİ 1 copy
Three Narrative Poems 1 copy
Poems of Coleridge 1 copy
The Golden Poets: Poems of Coleridge — Author — 1 copy
The Voyage 1 copy
Fears in solitude, written in 1798, during the alarm of an invasion. To which are added, France, an ode; and Frost at… (2012) 1 copy
Coleridge: Poetry and Prose 1 copy
The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, Vol. 2 of 3: Including the Dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya (Classic… (2017) 1 copy
Una visión en dos sueños. La balada del viejo marinero y Kubla Khan (Historia) (Spanish Edition) (2005) 1 copy
Coleridge's Works (2 vols.) 1 copy
Biographia Epistolaris: Being the Biographical Supplement of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria; With Additional Letters,… (2013) 1 copy
Osorio; a tragedy 1 copy
from: A Mathematical Problem 1 copy
The golden gift 1 copy
The Piccolomini; or, The first part of Wallenstein. Tr. from Schiller. The death of Wallenstein (2018) 1 copy
Poetry and prose 1 copy
Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge .. 1835 [Leather Bound] (2019) 1 copy
The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4: 1819-1826: Text: 5609 (Princeton Legacy Library, 5609) (2020) 1 copy
Anima Poeta 1 copy
The rime of the ancient mariner. Together with selected old English ballads. Ed. by A. Guthkelch 1 copy
Shakespeare 1 copy
Ode on the departing year 1 copy
Poems 1 copy
The Raven 1 copy
Associated Works
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contributor — 1,048 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 919 copies
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (2012) — Contributor — 186 copies
The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: 19th Century (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies) (1991) — Contributor — 45 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contributor — 40 copies
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributor — 33 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Contributor — 33 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Contributor — 29 copies
La poesía inglesa románticos y victorianos — Contributor — 4 copies
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Contributor — 4 copies
Europa: Analysen und Visionen der Romantiker (Insel Taschenbuch) (German Edition) (1982) — Contributor — 4 copies
A Reader for Writers — Contributor — 2 copies
Shadows from a Veiled Creation: Classic Tales of Supernatural Fiction in the Christian Tradition (2006) — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Birthdate
- 1772-10-21
- Date of death
- 1834-07-25
- Burial location
- St. Michael's Church, London, England, UK
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Ottery St Mary, Devon, England, UK
- Place of death
- Highgate, London, England, UK
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Places of residence
- Ottery St Mary, Devon, England, UK
London, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Nether Stowey, Somerset, England, UK
Highgate, London, England, UK - Education
- Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, England, UK
University of Cambridge (Jesus College) - Occupations
- poet
teacher
journalist
soldier (Dragoons)
philosopher
critic - Relationships
- Coleridge, Sara Fricker (wife)
Coleridge, Sara (daughter)
Coleridge, Hartley (son)
Coleridge, Henry Nelson (nephew, son-in-law)
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley (grandson)
Coleridge, Christabel (granddaughter) (show all 15)
Coleridge, Sir John Taylor (nephew)
Coleridge, Henry James (great-nephew)
Coleridge, Arthur Duke (great-nephew)
Coleridge, Mary (great-grandniece)
Coleridge, Stephen (great-grandnephew)
Coleridge, Bernard John Seymour (great-grandnephew)
Coleridge, Derwent (son)
Wordsworth, William (friend)
Keats, John (friend) - Awards and honors
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1824)
- Disambiguation notice
- Please be careful, when combining variants of the author's name, that you do not combine this page with that of the composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Thanks.
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