“From my early reading of Faery Tales, and Genii and so on, my mind had been habituated to the Vast, and I never regarded my senses in any way as the criteria of my belief.”
About Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, and died on 25 July 1834 at Highgate, near London. He occupies an unusual and commanding place in English literary history: he was at once one of the makers of Romantic poetry, a revolutionary critic of Shakespeare and poetic language, a…