Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, the youngest son of a clergyman. He was educated at Christ's Hospital School, London, where he met Charles Lamb, and at Jesus College, Cambridge. He met Wordsworth in 1797, and in 1799 they published the Lyrical Ballads, one of the most revolutionary collections of poetry in the history of English literature. In his later years, Coleridge wrote primarily on philosophy, politics and literature. He is one of the seminal figures of his time, described by Wordsworth as 'the only wonderful man I ever knew.'

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, the youngest son of a clergyman. He was educated at Christ's Hospital School, London, where he began his friendship with Charles Lamb, and Jesus College Cambridge. He first met Dorothy and William Wordsworth in 1797 and a close association developed between them, they issued their joint-publication, Lyrical Ballads in 1799. Coleridge subsequently settled in the Lake District and thereafter in London, where he lectured on Shakespeare and published his literary and philosophical theories in the Biographica Literaria. He died in 1834.