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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772 - 1834

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( KOH-lə-rij; 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Taylor Coleridge has received more than 4,080,476 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the 673rd most popular writer (down from 615th in 2019), the 514th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 484th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Writer.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is most famous for his poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

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Notable Works

Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1956
Lyrical Ballads
1798
Friend
Ethics
1809
Rime of the ancient mariner
Albatrosses
1836
The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poetry
1796
Biographia literaria
Aesthetics
These two volumes are a reprint of the edition of 1817 with additional material to clarify the text. It includes Coleridge's aesthetical writings; notes on the text; and an introductory essay about his theory of imagination.
1817

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ranks 673 out of 7,302. Before him are Sugawara no Michizane, Theodore the Studite, Matilde Camus, H. L. Mencken, Carlo Gozzi, and Douglas Adams. After him are Lawrence Durrell, Marie de France, Maurice Blanchot, Sei Shōnagon, Bernard Gui, and André Chénier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ranks 9. Before him are Charles Fourier, William I of the Netherlands, Friedrich Schlegel, Nachman of Breslov, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, and Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily. After him are Ram Mohan Roy, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Marie Anne Lenormand, and Tarrare. Among people deceased in 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ranks 8. Before him are Pedro I of Brazil, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Sunjo of Joseon, and Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. After him are Alois Senefelder, William Carey, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Husein Gradaščević, Jacques Balmat, and Karl Ludwig Harding.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ranks 514 out of 8,785. Before him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), Gary Moore (1952), Douglas Adams (1952), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), William Wilberforce (1759), and Jacqueline du Pré (1945). After him are Ælla of Northumbria (800), Archer Martin (1910), Peter Gabriel (1950), Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751), Raymond Cattell (1905), and Mike Oldfield (1953).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ranks 60. Before him are Alexander Pope (1688), Muriel Spark (1918), Martin Amis (1949), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Ian McEwan (1948), and Douglas Adams (1952). After him are Oliver Sacks (1933), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Beatrix Potter (1866), Walter Raleigh (1554), and A. J. Cronin (1896).

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