Coleridge, Samuel

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet and philosopher who, with fellow poet William Wordsworth, founded the Romantic Movement in England. In addition to penning the celebrated poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, Coleridge was an influential scholar, whose work on William Shakespeare reintroduced the playwright s work to contemporary writers. He is also credited with helping introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speakers. Coleridge s poetical work would later influence Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American transcendentalist movement.