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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. An English poet and philosopher; born at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, Oct. 21, 1772; died on July 25, 1834. Among his many works the following are probably most noteworthy: ‘Fall of Robespierre’ (1794), a play of which he wrote the first act; ‘Moral and Political Lecture Delivered at Bristol’ (1795); ‘Conciones ad Populum’ (1795), being addresses to the people; ‘The Plot Discovered’ (1795), a political pamphlet; ‘Poems on Various Subjects’ (1796); ‘Ode to the Departing Year’ (1796); ‘Fears in Solitude’ (1798); ‘Wallenstein’ (1800); ‘Remorse, a Tragedy’ (1813); ‘Christabel,’ with ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘Pains of Sleep’ (1816); ‘Biographia Literaria’ (1817); ‘Aids to Reflection’ (1825); ‘Table Talk’ (1835); ‘Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit’ (1840); the last two posthumous. The ‘Ancient Mariner’ was first published in 1798, in a volume of ‘Lyrical Ballads’ (with Wordsworth). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).