Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
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Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Subjects Nature, Weather, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
Poetic Terms Imagery
Biography
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Active in the wake of the French Revolution as a dissenting pamphleteer and lay preacher, he inspired a brilliant generation of writers and attracted the patronage of progressive men of the rising middle class. As William Wordsworth’s . . .
Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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SUBJECT Nature, Weather, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Poetic Terms Imagery
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