Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Known for

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, supernatural and imaginative Romanticism

Biography

English Romantic poet, critic and philosopher who collaborated with Wordsworth on the volume that launched English Romanticism, and struggled for much of his life with opium addiction.

A well-known line

"Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink."

Major works

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Kubla Khan
• Biographia Literaria