Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 W
Samuel Taylor Coleridge at age 42
Sarah Coleridge, by Mary Matilda Betham, 1809
Portrait of Coleridge, from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Vision of Sir Launfal
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daughter Sara Coleridge, 1830. Portrait by Richard James Lane
The Lake Poets is a term used for a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of North West England, in the first half of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single "s
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
…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. Coleridge wrote the…
Dove Cottage (Town End, Grasmere) – home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1799–1808; home of Thomas De Quincey, 1809–1820
Rydal Mount, home to Wordsworth 1813–1850. Hundreds of visitors came here to see him over the years
Greta Hall, Keswick – home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1800–1804; home to Robert Southey, 1803–1843