Samuel Taylor Coleridge
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Theology, Theologians, Poetry, Poets
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, British History, 18th Century European History
Article abstract: Coleridge wrote several of the finest lyric poems in the English language and is considered one of the most brilliant of literary critics. As a speculative religious thinker, he had a seminal influence on many of the great minds of the nineteenth century.
Early Life
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on October 21, 1772, in the town of Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire. He was the youngest of ten children born to Ann Bowden, the second wife of Coleridge’s father, John Coleridge, a clergyman and schoolmaster. Coleridge was an intellectually...
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