POET
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
BIOGRAPHY
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) published The Lyrical Ballads with William Wordsworth in 1798, an event later seen as the beginning of the Romantic movement in England. Coleridge held imagination to be the vital force behind poetry, and distinguished among different kinds of imagination in his long prose work Biographia Literaria. The haunting imagery of his poems “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan” is familiar to millions of readers.
POEMS
Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends
Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish
Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?
Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
Something Childish, but Very Natural
Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
