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Samuel Taylor Coleridge A great poet of imagination: Kubla Khan A critic of the Romanticism Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devon in 1772. He later attended Cambridge but left without completing his studies. During the shockwaves of French Revolution through Europe, Coleridge made a name for himself both as a political radical and as an important young poet; along with his friends Robert Southey and William Wordsworth (Lake Poets), he became one of the most important writers in England. Collaborating with Wordsworth on the revolutionary Lyrical Ballads of 1798, Coleridge helped to inaugurate the Romantic era in England by underlying the principles in Lyrical Ballads . 1 Privileging natural speech over poetic ornament. 2 simply stated themes over elaborate symbolism. 3 emotion over abstract thought, and the experience of natural beauty over urban sophistication. The book paved the way for two generations of poets, and stands as one of the milestones of European literature. Coleridge was responsible for attempting to present the supernatural as real whereas his friend William Wordsworth would try to render ordinary reality as remarkable, strange. Poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan demonstrate Coleridges talent for concocting bizarre, unsettling stories full of fantastic imagery and magic. Coleridge often privileges weird tales and bizarre imagery over the commonplace, rustic simplicities Wordsworth advocates Coleridge became an opium addict (it is thought that “Kubla Khan” originated from an opium dream) and, in 1816, moved in with the surgeon James Gillman in order to preserve his health. During the years he lived with Gillman, Coleridge composed many of his important non-fiction works, including the highly regarded Biographia Literaria.(文学传记) Coleridge’s style in poetry Coleridges poems often favor musical effects over the plainness of common speech. The intentional archaisms of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the