Start from the beginning of the English Romantic movement. Two poets believed everyone should be able to enjoy the beauty of the English language. Wordsworth and Coleridge cover the breadth of human emotions and speak to the soul of a human.

tain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist And still it neared and neared: As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could not laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail a sail With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call: Gramercy they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. See see (I cried) she tacks no more Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet who, along with his friend William Wordsworth, helped find the Romantic Movement. Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads, a highly influential book of poetry that marked the start of the Romantic age. Coleridge is also well known for writing Biographia Literaria, an autobiography in prose. The book is unique for its loose structure as it is more of a meditative biography instead of being straightforward. Included in Lyrical Ballads is the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which narrates the story of a sailor after he returns...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet who, along with his friend William Wordsworth, helped find the Romantic Movement. Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads, a highly influential book of poetry that marked the start of the Romantic age. Included in Lyrical Ballads is the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which narrates the story of a sailor after he returns from a long voyage. The poem is Coleridge's most famous and is considered one of the greatest in English literature.

Start from the beginning of the English Romantic movement. Two poets believed everyone should be able to enjoy the beauty of the English language. Wordsworth and Coleridge cover the breadth of human emotions and speak to the soul of a human in this wonderful collection published in 1798.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.