Knowra Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic, and philosopher whose works include “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan.”
English Romanticism : A late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary movement emphasizing imagination, emotion, nature, and individual experience. Coleridge helped establish its poetic ideals alongside William Wordsworth.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner : A narrative poem in which a mariner recounts a supernatural voyage and its moral consequences. Its wandering speaker, uncanny events, and ballad form exemplify Coleridge’s narrative poetry.
William Wordsworth : An English Romantic poet whose work includes “The Prelude” and “Lyrical Ballads.” Their collaboration shaped the 1798 collection that helped launch English Romantic poetry.
Primary and secondary imagination : Coleridge’s distinction between perception’s formative power and the conscious, artistic reshaping of experience. This distinction anchors his account of how poets transform what they perceive.
Lyrical Ballads : A poetry collection by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798. Its poems and 1800 preface became a landmark in the emergence of English Romanticism.
Imagination : The mental capacity to form images, ideas, and possibilities beyond immediate perception. Coleridge treated imagination as an active power that shapes artistic unity.
Kubla Khan : A fragmentary poem depicting a pleasure dome and landscape associated with the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Its dreamlike imagery became one of Coleridge’s most celebrated poetic achievements.
Robert Southey : An English poet and historian who served as Poet Laureate from 1813 to 1843. Southey shared Coleridge’s early radical ambitions and became his brother-in-law.
Willing suspension of disbelief : A reader’s temporary acceptance of extraordinary events while engaging with a fictional work. Coleridge used the phrase to describe a condition for successful supernatural poetry.
Romantic criticism : Literary criticism associated with Romantic-era ideas about imagination, authorship, nature, and poetic form. Coleridge’s lectures and prose became foundational examples of criticism shaped by Romantic thought.
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