Samuel Taylor Coleridge: (1772-1834)

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English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical

Ballads, (1798) written with William Wordsworth, started the

English Romantic movement.

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**One of Coleridge's greatest successes was Lyrical Ballads, which opened with Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and ended with Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey." These poems set a new style by using everyday language and fresh ways of looking at nature.

**Suffering from neuralgic and rheumatic pains, Coleridge had become addicted to Laudanum, an opiate. During the following years he lived in London, on the verge of suicide as a result of his severe, long-term DRUG ADDICTION. He found a permanent shelter in Highgate in the household of Dr. James Gillman, and enjoyed an almost legendary reputation among the younger Romantics. During this time he rarely left the house. 

**He died in Highgate, near London, on July 25, 1834.