Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on this day in 1772. Poet member of the Lake Poets, and a founder of the English Romantic Movement, he is often credited for introducing German Idealism to the English speaking world. Obviously an overstatement, but he is very important. Also, he directly influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalists.
His poetry is less read today, but pretty much everyone still recognizes lines from Kubla Khan and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
And, maybe today, in honor of the old boy’s two hundred, forty-fourth birthday, worth a revisit…
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