Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the founders of the English Romantic movement and one of the most brilliantly original minds in the history of English literature. The Great Poets — Samuel Taylor Coleridge collects highlights from his extraordinary poetic output, including some of the most famous and influential poems in the English language. Coleridge's masterpieces The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel represent the pinnacle of Romantic poetry's engagement with the supernatural, the exotic, and the power of the imagination. Born in 1772 in Devon, Coleridge formed a legendary creative partnership with William Wordsworth, together producing Lyrical Ballads in 1798, a collection that effectively launched the Romantic movement and changed the course of English poetry. While Wordsworth focused on the beauty of the natural and everyday, Coleridge brought the supernatural and the strange, creating poems of mesmerising musical beauty and visionary power. Beyond his poetry, Coleridge was one of the greatest literary critics and philosophers in English, and his Biographia Literaria remains a landmark of literary theory. His life was marked by personal struggle, including opium addiction and difficult relationships, but his creative achievements endure as some of the most remarkable in world literature. The Great Poets — Samuel Taylor Coleridge is available as an audiobook, offering listeners a wonderful way to experience the enchanting, visionary verse of one of England's greatest poets.