Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (KOHL-rihj), English poet, critic, and philosopher, was born in Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire, in 1772. In 1782, at the death of his father, a Church of England clergyman, he was sent to the Christ’s Hospital school in London. After eight years there he went to Jesus College, Cambridge. Charles Lamb, who wrote an essay about Coleridge as a boy, said that he had a tendency to monopolize conversation and was interested in metaphysical discussions. His schoolfellows considered him impractical and eccentric.
In the fall of 1793 Coleridge left Cambridge...
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