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
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
…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 poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner…
Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
Wordsworth's birthplace in Cockermouth, Cumbria
Wordsworth in 1798, about the time he began The Prelude.
Dove Cottage (Town End, Grasmere) – home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1799–1808; home of Thomas De Quincey, 1809–1820